{"id":7,"date":"2015-01-10T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2015-04-02T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:47:12","slug":"a-seamless-legacy-for-three-generations-theres-been-a-tamsky-selling-fabric-to-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"A Seamless Legacy – For three generations, there\u2019s been a Tamsky selling fabric to St. Louis."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Start online, and shop by color (with 65,000 items at Anatol\u2019s Fabric Outlet, you can find plenty of delft blue). Shop by label\u2014Robert Allen, Waverly, Tommy Bahama, maybe even the hot bright stripes of Annie Selke. Study all the toiles. Click the link for polka dots. Or multi dots (a separate category, for dots of different sizes). Or dottie dots (which are tinier, and not to be confused with bubbly circles).<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not sure, you can buy a swatch\u2014but most don\u2019t. \u201cOnly 25 percent of our orders come from people who ordered a sample,\u201d says owner Bob Tamsky, who was surprised by the result. \u201cThey are either impulse buying, or they know what they want.\u201d St. Louisans, though, can schlep bits of whatever we\u2019re matching to Anatol\u2019s new store in Hanley Industrial Court and hold them up to real bolts of fabric.<\/p>\n

For fresh designs, Mr. Tamsky likes \u201ca mill in Argentina\u2014this kid, he\u2019s about 30, inherited it from his family. He\u2019s doing some of the coolest things, and he can deliver from scratch in six weeks with a one-roll minimum.\u201d One pattern is blocked with the faces of iconic Americans who died before the age of 40; another has hands doing American Sign Language in every square.<\/p>\n

Anatol\u2019s still sells the bridal fabrics that Mr. Tamsky\u2019s father popularized. His grandfather, Anatol Tamsky\u2014a Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9 by way of Cuba\u2014started with a stand in Soulard, then opened a shop on Washington Avenue, selling leftover fabric from hundreds of apparel manufacturers. And now Mr. Tamsky does 90 percent of his business online, with fulfillment cen-ters all over the country.<\/p>\n

Their business is like the fabric itself: All that changes is the way the threads are woven together.<\/p>\n

Anatol\u2019s Fabric Outlet, 1328 Strassner, 314-968-0090, housefabric.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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St Louis AT HOME January-February 2011<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Start online, and shop by color (with 65,000 items at Anatol\u2019s Fabric Outlet, you can find plenty of delft blue). Shop by label\u2014Robert Allen, Waverly, Tommy Bahama, maybe even the hot bright stripes of Annie Selke. Study all the toiles. Click the link for polka dots. Or multi dots (a separate category, for dots of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Ckmo-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.housefabric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}