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…and television, the movies, theater, opera companies Living History
Museums, and more...
I often tell people I sell to quilters and costumers in television, the
movies, theater, opera companies and Living History Museums around the
world.
This expanded customer base started with the filming of “A River
Runs Through It” here in Montana in 1992. The costume shop had hired
some local seamstresses. When the call went out for retro cotton prints
for Mrs. Mclean’s aprons, the sewers sent the buyer to my store
in downtown Bozeman, MT. I had a good selection…he was happy, I
was happy.
From there it has been ‘word of mouth’ from one costume designer
to another. “Return to Lonesome Dove” and “Cold Mountain”
were nice sales. I often get orders in the fall from playhouses doing
“A Christmas Carol”. Living History Museums usually order
in January for the upcoming season. I do a lot of sampling…sometimes
I get an order, other times not but I am just hoping to stay in the costume
designers’ ‘electronic Rolodex’.
Two summers ago, the projects were the redo of “True Grit”
and “Cowboys and Aliens”, movies that ran in 2011. Both were
good movies for me. The rule of thumb with my husband is…..no pointing
and squealing in the movie theater when I see my fabrics on the big screen.
If it is really, really important, we can rent it later. This allows me
to freeze frame and talk to him in detail about each and every fabric
from the store…he just loves it!!
I recently sampled an upcoming movie called ‘Silver Bullet’
and made the sale. About 4 weeks ago, I was contacted by a costume designer
for “Downton Abbey”….the wildly popular British PBS
drama series. I was so thrilled…but tried to act very professional.
I did get the sale. So now I will need to tape each episode so I can go
through carefully searching for those special fabrics.
p.s. 6 hours after this post....I got a call from the costume designer
from 'True Grit". She requested samples for a new project!
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