The Quilted Fox

The Quilted Fox, in St. Louis, has built its name around sourcing fabric from well beyond the usual American designer lines — a genuinely international selection, including a large collection of batiks imported directly from Indonesia. With more than 6,000 unique fabrics on hand, this is a shop where the hunt itself is part of the appeal.

If you've spent years working with the same handful of domestic fabric lines and want something that looks and feels different — the tonal, hand-waxed quality that real Indonesian batik has, in particular — this is a shop built specifically for that search.

It's the kind of place worth a slow, unhurried visit rather than a quick errand, since with this much unique fabric on the shelves, the good finds are easy to miss if you're moving fast. For St. Louis quilters who want their stash to stand apart from what everyone else in the guild is using, The Quilted Fox is a shop worth knowing well.