Dealer Focus: Emporia Fabric & Craft, Ashford
In today's Dealer Focus, we look at Emporia Fabric & Craft in Ashford, home to an array of workshops, haberdashery and Brother machines. Fabrics, patterns, machines and classes in Ashord Emporia Fabric & Craft is an independent sewing shop located in Ashford town centre, owned and run by Clair Heal and selling a range of dress fabrics, quilting cottons and haberdashery. The shop also features a range of independently designed dress patterns created by Clair herself; these patterns form the basis of her sewing classes where she teaches everyone from beginners up to skilled sewists how to produce her designs. Clair has a history as a costume designer, and she studied pattern cutting and clothing technology at KIAD in Rochester before she set up Emporia. One of her first businesses was designing a range of maternity wear, which she started up whilst on maternity leave with her second child. It was after the move down from London to Kent that Clair decided she wan...