When looking for a special fabric and simply being unable find the exact tone, design or specialty print the natural suggestion is cut order. The ability to select a fabric from tens of thousands and have the exact amount required shipped by air is a practical solution. At least better than settling for a less desired option.

Nostalgia offers prints, silks, velvets, suedes, sheers, blackouts, metallics and a variety of textures by Kravet. For most, the most daunting task is knowing where to start.

At Nostalgia we offer 3 ways to find your fabric: tidy Color Racks, themed Storyboards and easy to use Books.

Color Racks

As pictured above, ease of visibility and logical categorization are the two major features of the Color Rack. With this method of display, silks will be with silks, prints will be with prints and you will find the entire available color line for each fabric in their successive sections.

Best use for color racks is knowing that once you have a fabric you can go to the color section and easily find another fabric with a matching color to be able to set a coordinate. For example, if you've found a wine colored silk with gold detailing which you want to make a curtain with, and you need a decorative sheer fabric to coordinate, you go to sheer section with wine and gold fabric in hand and look for either a matching gold or wine sheer as you go down the color progression.

Storyboards

Storyboards, as the name defines, tries to spin a themed tale of colors and textures. Fabrics on a storyboard are either coordinates or variations of one side of the coordinate. Everything is put together with the intention of offering a full decorative solution encompassing drapery fabrics and the upholstery fabric coordinate- offering extreme ease of use and completeness without the need to run around.

While one might not like all of the fabrics on a storyboard, they nonetheless act as an excellent starting point because they inspire. You can easily find a print or weave you like on a board but dislike the suggested sheer, stripe or solid fabric presented as a coordinate. But at least now you've defined what you like, and may have even found one or two fabrics you'd like to start off with.

Books

Books are the Republic of Panama's favored methodology of searching for a fabric as they are compact, easy to handle and a hybrid between the color rack and the storyboard.

Books take whats best of the storyboard, creating themes to inspire further decoration, and color racks, which organize by its physical properties of color and texture.

Kravet books, as pictured above, state on the front the theme of the book or the type of fabrics contained within. Usually a set of colors is also defined in circles or as the primary color of the sleeve, to allow for easy identification as to which color ranges the books will deal with. As stated above though, books aren't color racks in book format. You'll often find color coordinates and matching patterns in their color variations in one single book.

The best use for books is simply as a starting point to define the main fabric in the room, or to be used in combation with the other tools at your disposal. Books are particularly ideal for attempting to find specialty fabrics that might get lost in color racks such as modern fabrics, upholstery fabrics or contract fabric for hotels and commercial use.