A trip to the Textile Market

One of the fun and different trips we have done is to our local textile market. These are fairly common but that does not make the trip dull by any stretch of the imagination!  We began to go just for something to do and then I ended up getting some very nice clothing made.  The following are some of the sights we saw while visiting.

The variety of fabric is unbelieveable! There are cottons, silks, and heavy drapery fabrics in solids, prints. I know there are also blends I did not recognize. I really wanted to buy some of every thing! Most of the shops were no bigger than a small bedroom and often much narrower.

They were stocked to the brim and manned by several clerks who were either asleep:

Or animated and so willing to help. The language barrier sometimes made the details hard to pin down but they did their best to make a sale.

Often the stores had a "theme" either of color or subject (like cartoon characters). The one below really liked the color pink.

We discovered that it is possible to get clothing made using just what you have on.  I wore this purple shirt to the market and had several silk-like shirts made from the measurements they took while I had it on. The sewing was of excellent quality and I love the blouses I had made.

Besides having tons of fabric you could even get items sewn right on the spot. There were isles and isles of semstresses who would make thing while you waited. These people (men and women) were mostly making bedding and maybe curtains out of the most fun cotton prints I had ever seen.

Occasionally things got slow and then a nap was in order.