Bill was a self-employed fabric supplier for Broadway theatrical productions, but was also an accomplished amateur mandolin player.

For a time, its fabric suppliers struggled with acute shortages of indigo dye.

But are fabric suppliers and clothing manufacturers willing to gamble now with inventories to meet last-minute party demands in December?

Only this afternoon, one of the Maison's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive.

Sprint and the consortium intend to set up industrial networks over Internet, so that textile companies, for example, could compare prices offered by fabric suppliers and place orders.

His mother, Lucienne, sat discreetly in the third row with Gustav Zumsteg, his fabric supplier from Zurich.

In Brazil, he did very well as a fabric supplier and then a builder.

She avoided borrowing from any of the 13 local banks, which charge astronomical interest rates, by arranging credit with her foreign fabric suppliers.

Then he persuaded a fabric supplier to let him have several yards of gold cloth from a bolt that was going to Marc Jacobs.

Within 24 hours, Ms. Miller had made a trouser pattern and ordered three floral prints from a local fabric supplier.