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Limited Edition and Out of Print Designs<\/h2>\n
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Out of Print Design Patterned Zig Zags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dealing in the fabric world, I get a lot of questions from people asking why I don’t carry a particular design anymore, when will I get more in, and even how can people print the design themselves.\u00a0 So, let’s start with the last one real quick…. you can NOT print a design you found somewhere else on your own.\u00a0 Designs are copyright protected, so you will have to find some elsewhere or move on to another design. Sorry! (On a side note, only certain types of fabric can be print on demand. Flannel fabric cannot be printed, but regular cotton or fleece can.)<\/p>\n

Limited Edition Fabrics<\/h1>\n

Just about 99% of the fabric out there should be called Limited Edition.\u00a0 Designs are typically considered “seasonal” and rarely released more than once.\u00a0 Even if they are released again, ALL batches are limited.\u00a0 Let’s face it, no matter how popular a design is, a company will only have a certain amount of it manufactured.\u00a0 They cannot spend all of their time manufacturing only one design, so they might say print up 16,000 yards of design A, 10,000 yards of design B, and 12,000 yards of design C… etc.\u00a0 Of course, that’s larger companies.\u00a0 Many of the smaller companies may have a much lower amount of a design that is printed.<\/p>\n

So, basically as long as a design is still in stores it can be considered a Limited Edition fabric.\u00a0 Will it ever come back out again? The answer is simply maybe.\u00a0 Some designs are released once, twice, three times, or continuously.\u00a0 Even the continuous designs are limited each year, though, but those would not be considered Limited Edition because they WILL be released again.\u00a0 For most designs, they will never be seen from again through the same company.\u00a0 There are some designs that are re-designed with a different color variation or an addition or removal of an image in the design, etc.\u00a0 Some are simply shifted from one fabric type to another.\u00a0 There might be some formula used for all of the confusion, but I really believe that someone is hired to tell companies what is popular and what isn’t and then the companies may do research or just make their own decisions on the designs.\u00a0 I’ve never worked for a fabric company (except my own), so I’m not sure on the exact procedure… but I can tell you what I’ve seen over the years.<\/p>\n

A major question I get is “When will the design come back out again if it is re-released?”.\u00a0 The answer: It’s hard to say for sure.\u00a0 I can tell you that many of the designs really do come out the same month the next year.\u00a0 However, some of the designs that I’ve seen come back out again will be released 8 months later while others are 18 months.\u00a0 There is probably a few reasons why this happens. Sometimes a design that was released in the middle of summer ends up being more popular than anticipated, so they might shift it to a time that they feel more fabric sells.\u00a0 The opposite might occur, as well, and the company might think a design is still popular enough to sell, but they want to limit it more so they shift it to a slower time of the year.\u00a0 I really think, though, that the manufacturer’s have a lot to do with dictating when a design ends up being released.\u00a0 If they have too many designs at a particular time then maybe it pushed back the timeframe for one that was going to be released next.\u00a0 Maybe the red ink ran out and they had a delay getting some more in (yes I have seriously heard of this happening).\u00a0 Depending on the country it is being manufactured in, they might take a month off which will push back designs since nothing is being manufactured.<\/p>\n

Overall, every design should be considered Limited Edition.\u00a0 There are just different levels of it.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the only people who know which designs will be affected by what are whoever makes the decisions in the companies for designs.<\/p>\n

Out of Print<\/h1>\n

Once a design is sold out, it is considered Out of Print.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean you cannot find it at all…. but it means you cannot find it through the manufacturers\/distributors and typically “regular” stores.\u00a0 It also means that it will not be back.\u00a0 This is not a rule that companies are required to stick with, though, and may come back out with an Out of Print design several years after it was discontinued.\u00a0 Out of the literally thousands of designs that have gone through my place, I’ve only seen about a handful of them come back out exactly the same after it was discontinued.\u00a0 In my opinion, Out of Print is anything that is not longer available from the original source after 18 months.\u00a0 USUALLY, fabric designs are discontinued MUCH sooner and not available after a month or two.\u00a0 However, it is not technically Out of Print if they are going to bring it out the next year, so the only way to really tell is to check back often with the company.<\/p>\n

For most companies, they are a one time only release of that design.\u00a0 So, Limited Edition designs turn into Out of Print designs rather quickly.\u00a0 I treat all new designs as soon to be Out of Print because there really is a limited amount of flannel out there to fill the needs of everyone.\u00a0 My store is stocked with over 2000 flannel designs to keep people finding those prints that they loved and cannot find anymore.\u00a0 For my shop, ALL of the prints are limited.\u00a0 I do not manufacture my own fabric (yet!) so I am limited to what I can get ahold of when it is available.<\/p>\n

I hope that this information has helped to understand a little more about how designs work and why you can’t find a particular design anymore.\u00a0 I try to keep an enormous variety for people to choose from and will continue to do so for as long as I can!\u00a0 Keep checking back for new designs.\u00a0 They usually come out monthly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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