RIMMON FABRICS

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(310) 478-1105 (800) 697-4666

11054 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90064

email: rimmonfabrics@aol.com

Welcome to the adventure known as Rimmon Fabrics. Started in 1955 by Sinclair and Joan, Rimmon Fabrics has become an exciting source for designer fabrics for customers all over these United States. Their sons, Ron and Dan with some help from their daughter Adina, have continued the tradition of providing you access to an amazing range of beautiful exclusive textiles. Located on the west side of Los Angeles, we are known as the "secret Westside source for designer fabrics." We would be happy to welcome you to our warehouse. Roxy, a recent fashion design school graduate is also employed to help us help you. Please feel free to call and make an appointment to visit if you are in the L. A. area.

THE FABRICS:

We specialize in natural fibers and finer piece goods. We also have a number of synthetic fibers and some novelty fabrics. While we focus on better women’s dress fabrics, we also carry a wide range of textiles suitable for children and men’s wear. We carry wovens as well as knits.

To see some of our current fabrics, click on Rimmon Stock Goods

THE BUTTONS

We are currently showing a unique group of designer buttons available in a variety of quantities, materials and colors. Click on Buttons to see more.

SPECIALTY ITEMS

Dan has once again started traveling to Bali and has found amazing fabrics. Of course, these sell out as soon as we show them, but we are pleased to also have a number of beautiful sarongs available to sell. There are cottons and rayons, batiks, hand-painted and embroidered pieces.

To check it out, click on Dan’s Treasures.

OTHER LINES

We are very excited to represent the following incredible fabric lines:

Liberty of London – You haven’t felt luxuriance until you've felt the hand of Liberty cottons, among the world’s finest cottons prints with seasonal jerseys, corduroys and silks.

Roopa – Organic knits of bamboo and cotton out of Canada

JP Doumak – A fine line of elegant fabrics out of Canada

We would like to introduce you to a number of lines we think would appeal to you, our customers

Links: D & N Textiles

UPCOMING EVENTS AND TRADE SHOWS

Please visit us at the following tradeshows where we will be showing our lines.

International Textile Expo
Bally's Event Center, Las Vegas
September 8 - 10, 2008

Northwest Fabric Show in Seattle, WA.
September 19 - 20, 2008

February 27 - 28, 2009
October 2 - 3, 2009

February 26 - 27, 2010
October 1 - 2, 2010

As the West Coast representatives for Heirloom Imports, we are proud to show Liberty Fabrics and other fine imported cottons. To see some of the current offerings please visit Liberty Fabrics.

Scarves are in and we have them. Click here to see photos of the handsome French wool scarves. We also carry silk scarves from Italy, Vietnam, many and other countries.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Women's Wear Daily page 16
Finding New Life for Leftover Goods by Nola Sarkisian-Miller

LOS ANGELES – Designers often sell off excess inventory at sample sales, but the likes of Richard Tyler, David Hayes and Peter Cohen have an avenue for scraps and pieces of leftover fabric.
   They often turn to S. Rimmon & Co., a 50-year-old mainstay in Los Angeles textiles.
   Located off Pico Boulevard in the city’s Westside and adjacent to a La-Z Boy Furniture Galleries store, the firm isn’t visible from the street. That’s perhaps a nod to the low profile it has maintained since its beginnings as a sales office known for its European textiles, which it sold to designers such as Rudi Gernreich and William Pearson.
   When the casual craze swept the region, the company shifted its focus in the Seventies to selling materials to fabric stores, then added the niche designer component in the last decade.
   The firm was founded by Sinclair Rimmon and his wife, Joan. It is now run by sons Ron, who oversees fabric buying and selling, and Dan, a sales representative and daughter Adina, who is the warehouse manager.
   “We figure we can’t be everything to everybody, so we like to work under the radar,” said Ron Rimmon.
   The warehouse-style office can carry as many as 1,000 incomplete bolts of usually high-end fabric, cycling through 25 percent of the product in just two weeks. In stock last week were floral chiffons, a Tencel and rayon blend in checkered pattern, brocades, sheepskin, alpaca and a blue and peach ethnic pattern shot through with gold.

   Ron Rimmon’s average purchase is about 50 to 100 bolts of product in 10 to 100-yard increments that he’s willing to sell at five yards a pop. Recently, he bought 100 yards of fabric from a customer that originally sold for $121 a yard. He paid “less than $30” a yard and sold it for about $30 a yard. Cardboard circular bins stock some of the bargain-basement product – silks, solids and linings – that may be sold from $1 to $10 for the bolt.
   The operation is a bit of a gold mine for smaller or high-end designers looking for ways to create one-ofs, or clothing that would be hard to replicate. It is also a place for clothing firms to sell unneeded goods.
   Sales are less than $1 million and Rimmon is looking for ways to expand the business. Last year, the company began representing Liberty of London’s home fabrics in the U.S.
   Occasionally, he also get the trim bug, especially while traveling. A visit to Buenos Aires led to the purchase of a few dozen trinkets made with a leather strap and colorful Sweet Tart-sized buttons that he sold to a local retailer for double what he paid.
   But he’s not looking to get too big. The family likes to run a loosely knit organization. Dan Rimmon lives in San Diego, where he like to surf. Adina Rimmon also can tend to her hobbies, such as designing baby blankets and aprons. Their brother prefers to be the worker bee.
   “I like to work, “ he said, noting it takes a little time, patience or just “one phone call” to snare that fabric deal.

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