We’ve got some beautiful new fabrics in store after a long wait for them.
You may have heard some of the recent issues with Nerida Hansen's fabric business. We bought and paid for fabric from Nerida Hansen in August and September 2023 (yes, you read that right!) and have been awaiting their delivery since.
We loved these designs and thought that Nerida had an amazing eye for bringing designers into the spotlight and getting other artist's work onto fabric. We'd ordered many times before with no issues so we felt safe in spending a huge percentage of our fabric budget pre-ordering fabric. However, in the months after we made purchases and we had heard nothing about delivery, we became increasingly concerned. Other customers became vocal about their orders not being shipped and the responses from Nerida Hansen were increasingly sporadic, frustrating and sometimes non-existent.
Some of our order has finally arrived, and whilst it doesnt quite match the fabric bases or quantities we'd originally paid for, we're relieved to be able to try to regain some of our losses.
Would we continue to buy from Nerida Hansen? Absolutely not. We’re still considerably out of pocket for fabric we bought 18 months ago and it's not looking promising that the rest of our fabric will ever arrive.
We understand you may feel strongly about Nerida Hansen and her current business practice and please rest assured that we do too! We've had a few messages from customers who have suggested Grid Fabrics should be boycotted for selling Nerida Hansen fabrics and we can understand those feelings. However, we are a tiny business who bought from a supplier who was reputable at the time and boycotting us for selling these fabrics we've paid so much and waited so long for doesn't affect Nerida Hansen: it damages us. Nerida Hansen already has our money and we cant get it back. All we can do is try to sell the fabric we have to keep our little business above water and avoid ever buying from her again.
We loved the designs when we purchased them in 2023 and still love them now - we hope you do too.
You can see all our remaining Nerida Hansen fabrics on our website - there won't be any more once these are gone (unless the rest of our order arrives) so once they're gone, they're gone forever!
Thank you so much for reading and for supporting Grid Fabrics! We hope we can keep bringing you our favourite fabrics from all over the world. Happy sewing!
Sally and Catriona
Grid Fabrics
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