Local:
B&J - 525 Seventh Avenue, between 37th and 38th Streets 2nd floor (212) 354-8150 - large selection of luxury fabrics, expensive
Fikret Fabrics - 264 West 40th Street (212) 719-2252 - discount fabrics, bargains, and close-outs
Leather Impact - 256 West 38th Street (212) 302-2332 - everything leather
Paron West, Paron Annex - 206 West 40th Street (212) 768-3266 - one is full price, the other is half price - quality discount fabrics
P&S Fabrics - 355 Broadway (about four blocks below Canal) (212) 226-1534.
Spandex House Inc. - 263 West 38th Street (212) 354-6711 - everything stretchy
Village Fabrics - 1st ave and 12th street - close, but not a huge selection.
Online Industrial Fabrics:
CST Sales - carbon, aramid, carbon/aramid hybrid, and other cloths and tapes
Defender Industries - 42 Great Neck Road, Waterford, CT 06385 (800) 628-8225 - marine supplies, glass fiber, cloth, and resins
West System Epoxy - highly refined system for epoxy construction - excellent technical info - products are expensive
North Sails - innovator in high-strength high-efficiency sail design using carbon, aramid, and other new fibers
NOTE: Due to military demand there is a worldwide shortage of carbon fiber.
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