The Fabric Room

About Us

The Fabric Room offers an extensive collection of the finest quality European fabrics and notions at very competitive prices. Our showroom is well catalogued and clearly organized to facilitate your search. Our experienced staff take pride in assisting our customers find exactly what they need.

We operate as a wholesale showroom by appointment and sell primarily to industry professionals as well as to enthusiasts. Fabrics are sold by the piece, with piece lengths ranging from 1m to 50m. Notions are sold by the piece or metre.

Due to the breadth of our inventory, a visit to our showroom is the most efficient and rewarding way of finding what you need. If that is not possible please contact us and we will try to assist you in the best way we can.

Our History

If there was a beautiful fabric that Lida Baday didn’t buy, it was probably because she didn’t see it. Lida is passionate about fabric and her collections always started with the discovery or development of remarkably beautiful and refined fabrics. The feel of the fabric against the skin was as important to her as the fabric’s ability to be molded or sculptured into clean modern shapes. She is renowned in the industry for her exquisite taste, technical knowledge of, and appreciation for, luxurious fabrics and materials.

During the 27 years of creating her much admired womenswear collections, Lida amassed a vast inventory that included some of the finest fabrics and notions produced by Europe’s top mills as well as exceptional laces, ribbons and buttons made from a variety of natural materials.

After closing her company in 2014, The Fabric Room was created as a means to make these materials available to the wider industry. With more than 2,500 fabrics totaling over 200,000 metres, and a seemingly endless variety of exceptional notions, we are an unique resource for the fashion professional.

Some of the original employees that worked with this inventory over the years are now with The Fabric Room to offer advice and help you find what you are looking for.

Our Fabrics

Our inventory of imported fabrics include beautiful natural fibres such as wool, silk, linen, cotton as well as a wide range of yarn-dyed poly and viscose blends. All expertly organized to make searching through our inventory as easy as possible.

We carry French lace from Solstiss, Darquer and Sophie Hallette, a vast selection of fine Italian jersey, luxurious Italian leather skins and exquisite European trims sold by the metre. We also offer a wide range of linings, fusings and unique and novelty fabrics such as velvet, metal blends, tulle and suiting.

Silk

Wool

Linen

Leather

Jersey

Cotton

Fusings

Linings

Lace

Novelty

Silk

An array of beautiful 100% silk and silk blends imported from the finest European mills. The inventory includes washed organza, taffeta, radzmir, charmeuse, chiffon, crepe as well as bonded and coated options.

Wool

Luxurious 100% wool and wool blends from European’s finest mills. From the traditional to the inspired, our inventory includes a broad range of wool crepe, silk/wool suiting, cotton/wool double face, bonded as well as fine Italian wool jersey.

Linen

Innovative and modern 100% linen and linen blends. We carry both woven and knit options including yarn dyed twills, washed, double face, silk/linen, cotton/linen, striped as well as coated and bonded. Imported from some of leading linen mills.

Leather

Beautiful and supple Italian lamb and goat skins from one the of finest tanneries in Italy.

Jersey

An extensive inventory of the finest quality jersey imported from top Italian mills. The inventory includes a wide range of beautiful viscose, exquisite acetate, sumptuous wool, luxurious silk and cashmere jersey as well as innovative and novel options.

Cotton

Wide-ranging selection of cotton and cotton blends including linen/cotton, hemp/cotton, silk/cotton, stretch, double face, yarn-dye twills as well as beautiful cotton shirtings in both stretch and silk blends.

Fusings

We offer a range of weights and qualities. Experienced staff are happy to assist in choosing an appropriate one.

Linings

A full range of options including cotton, acetate, silk habutae, stretch charmeuse, poly satin, competitively priced Bemberg, stretch woven and fine Italian jersey.

Lace

Exquisite French, Italian and Austrian laces from the renowned lace makers Sophie Hallette, Solstiss, Pizval and HOH.

Novelty

We ofter a range of novelty fabrics including metal blends, cloque, velvet, beaded, printed, bonded and burnout.

Our Notions

We also offer a wide range of linings, fusings and exceptional notions including fine Italian hardware, natural and novelty buttons. We also carry a broad assortment of grosgrain, velvet and silk imported ribbon.

We stock YKK zippers and have the largest inventory of Swiss-made Riri brand metal zippers in Canada. In addition, we carry silk thread, horsehair, sew thru boning, shoulder pads, India and twill tape, bust shapers, hooks, snaps, and many other items.

Buttons

Zippers

Ribbon

Trims

Elastic

Hardware

Buttons

High quality buttons from some of the best producers including a broad variety of horn, bone, Italian handcrafted metal, mother-of-pearl, glass and corozo. Buttons are sold by the piece, no minimums.

Zippers

A vast inventory of top quality Riri zippers in a range of tape colours, metal finishes, lengths and sizes. We are happy to assist customers in their search and welcome requests in advance of appointments. We also offer a wide selection of YKK invisible and regular. Zippers are sold by the piece, no minimums.

Ribbon

Finely crafted ribbon from preeminent French, Italian and Japanese mills. We offer an array of qualities including an extensive selection of grosgrain as well as velvet, stretch organza, mesh and double satin. Ribbon is sold by the metre, no minimums.

Trims

An exquisite selection of trims from delicate finishing laces to elaborate beaded and embroidered lace trims. Imported from renowned lace makers Sophie Hallette, Solstiss, Pizval and HOH. Trims are sold by the metre, no minimums.

Elastic

We offer a variety of quality elastics for a variety of applications including Framis, a high quality polyurethane tape, Jaegar a German-made high-strength finished elastic as well as Cansew in a variety of widths. Sold by the metre, no minimums.

Hardware

We carry a variety of metal snaps in an array of colours, available in painted metal as well as fabric covered. In addition we offer beautifully handcrafted fine Italian D-rings and buckles as well as chains, hooks, eyes, belt ends and bra adjusters. Sold by the piece, no minimums.

Contact Us

70 - 2700 Dufferin Street 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6B 4J3

Monday — Friday 9am — 5pm
By appointment

General Email:shop@thefabricroom.ca

Telephone: 416 603 8020