Haberman Fabrics is known by home sewers of all experience levels and by professional designers and dressmakers throughout the region for its:

  • Extensive collection of fine fashion fabrics, imported and domestic, often from top designer and ready-to-wear manufacturers
  • Exceptional selection of bridal fabrics, trims and headpieces
  • Very special buttons from manufacturers and artisans throughout the world
  • Superb home decorating fabrics and trims and down pillows
  • Collection of 21 independent pattern companies, plus major manufacturers, from Bridal designs to Art-To-Wear to Home Décor
  • Highest quality custom-order upholstered furniture
  • Outstanding service by the knowledgeable staff
  • Inspiring sewing classes
  • And always, great shopping values


FREE SEWING PROJECTS
Looking for a fun, creative project for you and your family? Haberman Fabrics has perfect ones. Just visit the "Projects and Tips" section of our website to choose a Free Sewing Project. You'll find easy to read instructions, diagrams, and photos guide you in quick projects and those requiring a little more time. Click here to get started!

GLOBAL AND ECO FABRIC
Step into Spring's global fashion trend with African/tribal inspired cotton prints, metallic ethnic prints, & authentic printed mudcloth. Eco-conscious style begins with luxuriously soft knits and crisp wovens made from bamboo.

FOLKWEAR PATTERNS
 Go global with one-of-a-kind ethnic patterns from Folkwear. You'll find jackets, tops and wraps, dresses, kimonos, robes, tunics and more in this diverse line of apparel patterns. Many include instructions for traditional embellishment & embroidery. Some home decorating patterns, too.

SEWING REFERENCE BOOKS
Check out our extensive collection of Reference Books with the best sewing technique advice and inspiring ideas for all your apparel & home decorating projects. Our latest offering is The Sewing Stitch & Textile Bible.

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Do you enjoy stepping back in time to the fantasyland of the Renaissance Festival? Perhaps you delight in the art of making period Renaissance costumes? If so, check out these recommendations for great Renaissance garment patterns, fabric & color, fitting, construction, and more:

- Renaissance Patterns, Fitting, Construction
- Renaissance Festival Listings for Michigan & Pattern Photos

When you're ready to shop for great Boning and Corsetry notions, look no further than our shop online pages, located at this url: http://www.habermanfabrics.com/scart/Notions.htm.

For luxurious silk & silk blend Brocades, click here.
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New Spring / Summer schedule coming soon!

Great classes on our current schedule still remaining! FOR STARTERS, try fabulous wardrobe-building classes like Knit Top. Or, make a stylish kitchen, grill or garden apron in Apronology for Men & Women. Press your sewing techniques further with classes like Hand Sewing Workshop II and Sewing Tricks for Quality.

If Home Decorating is your passion, let us help you transform your surroundings with fabulous classes like Duvet Cover. Or, create your own home decorating project and get help from one of our expert instructors when you register for Home Dec. Open Sew.

There are exciting Kids and Teens classes, too!

To view and register for classes on our Winter-Spring Class Schedule, please click here.

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To see information and photos of our past events, including the 11th Annual Super Bowl Sunday Football Widows' Sewing Retreat and the "MAKE IT WORK!" Metro Detroit Fashion Design Challenge (2006), please click here.
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First it hit the Wall Street Journal on Nov. 1, 2006 (including a quote from Toby Haberman) in "It's Hip To Hem", and on January 24, 2007 it made the NBC's Today Show. Thanks in part to Bravo TV's Project Runway fashion design reality show, home sewing is definitely "in." At Haberman Fabrics, Royal Oak, Beginning Sewing classes and more informal "Open Sewing" sessions brim with enthusiastic students eager to express their personal style and proudly, doing it themselves. D.I.Y. fashion is hot!

Below are links to the Wall Street Journal and Today Show pieces that covered the trend of the home sewing revival. Enjoy!

TODAY SHOW: Meredith reports in the lead-in, "Knitting is so five minutes ago." Watch the video by clicking here.

WALL STREET JOURNAL article of Nov. 1, 2006 , "It's Hip To Hem" (picked up in the Post Gazette): Read the full article here, on the resurgence of sewing's popularity.

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