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November 1999 Award Recipients! User Friendly Fabric Site: Quick loading front page with purpose and contents displayed. Ease in navigation is top notch. The Quilted Fox www.quiltedfox.com info@quiltedfox.com "This site is easy to use, clean looking, and just downright pleasant to navigate. The selection and service are great too. I hope you'll consider them for one of your awards." Marsha Bray. Well, we looked, shopped, and agree - Quilted Fox is definately an award site! Informational Fabric Site: Excellent and Current information. Hemp Traders http://www.hemptraders.com hemptrader@aol.com Everything you want to know about hemp! This site not only lets us in on the hemp trade, but explains about greige goods, fabric treatments, care of hemp... and they sell hemp! Top Ranking Fabric Site: Over all site, navigation, content, graphics, store front. Dharma Trading Co. www.dharmatrading.com Customer Service Award: Barbara Stone Designs www.barbarastonedesigns.com stoertel@c-zone.net This is a great example of where custom clothiers are going on the internet. Barbara Stone Designs has overcome the distance problem in fitting and making custom clothing. Her services include custom sizing, a good fitting product, and a selection of colors. They specialize in one-on-one service and have a ton of choices! October 1999 Award Recipients! User Friendly Fabric Site: Quick loading front page with purpose and contents displayed. Ease in navigation is top notch. Honey Fork Fabrics www.honeyforkfabrics.com Informational Fabric Site: Excellent and Current information. The Woolmark Company http://www.wool.com.au/ info@wool.com.au Everything you want to know about wool! Wow! History, Properties, Sheep, Processing, Regions... Products.. Carpet, Fabric, Bedding... Stain Removal.. You just have to see to believe. Have fun! Top Ranking Fabric Site: Over all site, navigation, content, graphics, store front. The Giving Tree www.givingtreeonline.com Customer Service Award: Hickory Hill Quilts http://www.HickoryHillQuilts.com oldquilt@albany.net Lots of antique quilts for inspiration, a ton of reproduction and novelty fabrics, a wonderful selection of quilt history books, and Quilters Dream cotton batting. They give you free samples of batting just for the asking. This site is laid out well, with navigation beacons at the top of every page. There are TWO ways to order securely on line, as well as a fax number and a toll free number . Constantly adding items - keep an eye on their on-line newsletter page. Free shipping on books and Secret Sister items, plus a discount if you join "the club". On going contests and bonuses. Really a fun place to visit! September 1999 Award Recipients! User Friendly Fabric Site: Quick loading front page with purpose and contents displayed. Ease in navigation is top notch. The Quilted Garden http://www.thequiltedgarden.com qltgrdn@aol.com This is such a happy site. It makes me feel like they like me there... Well, aside from warm fuzzies, the site is laid out well, has directions, and a simple shopping cart. They also have an added touch: "I received an e-mail telling me when my package shipped. I received my fabrics beautifully packaged and tied with a ribbon! I ordered on 7/25, and my order shipped on 7/26! I also asked them to send some fabric to my secret pal. They e-mailed me and asked me how I would like the card signed. Then they gift wrapped my gift and sent it off to my secret pal for me!" Caren Informational Fabric Site: Excellent and Current information. Timmel Fabrics http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/timmel.fabrics/ Timmel offers not only a great store, but tips that are updated frequently. Right now is an article on Interfacing that goes beyond the basic 'how and where'. It is about 3 kinds of interfacing, why to use it where, and trick for using! They have archived articles so you can spend days learning :) timmel.fabrics@ns.sympatico.ca Top Ranking Fabric Site: Over all site, navigation, content, graphics, store front. Kimma-d Kountry Designs http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/workshop/3294 kimmadkountry@centuryinter.net A Quilter's heaven! Lots of tools, chats, lists, along with patterns, classes, and, don't forget, fabric! "I would like to Nominate the Kimma-d Kountry Designs site they have Great Designer Fabric for sale and orginal Designed Patterns for Paper Piecing Foundation Plus a Paper Piecing Foundation class on 'how to'" Michelle Customer Service Award: Phoenix Textiles http://www.phoenixtextiles.com - Anywhere we go, there are always satisfied Phoenix customers! Phoenix replies to email, has prompt delivery, can be reached directly, and answers questions well within an adequate time frame. Even when they make a mistake, like everyone does, they correct it in three-fold.. We could fill this whole site with quotes from happy customers, but to make it simple, you can read them here: http://www.phoenixtextiles.com/testimonials/ Or you can email them to see for yourself: friedman@fabric.com Viewer's Choice Award: Missing Fabrics http://www.missingfabrics.com smpratt@missingfabrics.com Missing Fabrics helps locate fabrics much like Fabrics.net does. They have a real care in what they do and help quite a few people find missing fabrics! "I would like to nominate missingfabrics.com. I have both found fabric I needed and found fabric for others and I think it is a really neat site. Thanks" Nisha Dawson August 1999 Award Recipients! All of the sites this month are full of information! It was hard not putting them all under the information award category! User Friendly Fabric Site: Quick loading front page with purpose and contents displayed. Ease in navigation is top notch. Silk Road http://www.srfabrics.com A retail site that not only sells the silk, cotton, linen, wool, tencel, and blended fabric, but offers history, definitions and cleaning info on the fabrics they sell! Webmistress@srfabrics.com Informational Fabric Site: Excellent and Current information. Kiwi Web, Chemistry & New Zealand http://www.chemistry.co.nz/stain.htm Ever wonder about the History of Soap and Detergent? The answers are here. Also more information on bleach, ammonia, whiteners and more! An amazing assortment of stain removal techniques categorized by the type of stain. This page is a jewel of a find! There are also a more detailed books you can purchase on Stain removal. Top Ranking Fabric Site: Over all site, navigation, content, graphics, store front. The Linen House http://www.thelinenhouse.com - If you want to drool over fine linen, this is the place to do so. They have linen by the yard and finished products made with linen. If that wasn't enough, there is information about linen that you can't miss! Oh, and they have this wonderful shopping cart that figures all kinds of currency and measures with a secure order form! info@thelinenhouse.com Customer Service Award: EQuilter http://www.equilter.com - Quality quilting fabrics specializing in Asian-Pacific and Contemporary motifs, but also have a large assortment of popular quilting cottons. A solid store with all their "P's" and "Q's" in line! Sales@equilter.com Customer comments: "Just wanted to let you know the fabric arrived this afternoon safe & sound and is even prettier than the picture!!! Thanks so much for the GREAT fabric & smooth transaction. Thanks again!" "Checked out your store and needed a napkin to wipe up all the drool. Only wish I had some disposable cash :< - but I've marked you as a Favorite and, as Arnold said, I'll be back." "BTW, you thumbnail pages look really fast - what a pleasure - and the colors seem clear and true (judging by the fabrics I already own). Carol" "It's Beverly! I just received the FQ's that I ordered from you! I thank you so much for all the personalized detailing that you spent on the package. The fabrics are gorgeous and I love the beautiful wrapping, and the little seahorse and personalized thank you from you! Thanks again! BEVERLY" Viewer's Choice Award: Emmaress Exports http://members.xoom.com/emmaress/ Emmaress Exporters is a Textile Company based in India for the last 20 years. They are manufacturers and Exporters of Top Quality Fabrics suitable for all markets world wide. If you want to see how the exporters/importers do business, go here. It is very interesting to learn the technical language and the business at the manufacturer's level. AND - they sell fabrics! Wholesale, that is... emmaress@bom3.vsnl.net.in Current Winners
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