Help with listing fabric

[Rhianna]

I picked up this absolutely fabulous fabric at the thrift store, it is on a large bot that is about 60″ tall. The brand is Schumacher, it is called Aviary from their Les Belle Cinq Collection. I have not been able to find anything regarding this pattern, price wise. I am wondering if who sells fabric can help me with listing this. I wonder how to take good pictures, the best way to cut this beast, and also pricing. I did cut off a 2 yard piece and put it up for auction just to see if I can figure out a price range. This is my listing https://www.ebay.com/itm/203317601635

Please critique away. Any tips on keywords would be great as well. Thanks all! 🙂

[gargolfer]

I found a similar listing on Terapeak that sold for $25 in May of 2020: F Schumacher ‘Aviary’ Bird Floral Les Belle Cinq Fabric 54”x128”

Have you tried checking there?

[Rhianna]

Oh I did see that. When I first looked at the picture I did not notice they were similar design, just different color.

[Ryanne]

beautiful!!

[JJCatfinder]

I have not watched this video yet but these ladies usually have pretty good info. I know they sell fabric and patterns. They aren’t the pushy “guru” types that over inflate what they are selling for, etc.

[JJCatfinder]

I thought of a couple of other things — if someone is going to use the fabric for upholstery or curtains for tall windows, they might need quite a bit more than 2 yards. Once you figure out your price so you can do a BIN listing, I would list with a 2 yard minimum and give a by the yard price. I threw your ebay title into Google and it pulled up a number of similar items and it looks like the fabric is listed from $65 up till $150 per yard. You might as well start it high and put it on sale if it doesn’t sell.
I would also do my best to get the color of the fabric as close as you can to the original. eBay has some editing tools on the site when you post the images — if you can take in natural light that might help but definitely not florescent. You could also offer to send a sample to an interested buyer.
On something this pricey, I wonder if you could take it by Hancock Fabrics or similar and ask the ladies at the fabric counter if they can identify the fabric.
I have really been thinking about fabric today so hope this doesn’t seem like I am coming on too strong with my ideas — I just get excited about stuff and get going. Anyway, if I were writing the description, I would leave out the word “seems” — I might say “I believe the fabric is cotton or a cotton blend…” and the color is coral so you could say “The fabric is coral with a multicolor print of birds, flowers, leaves and branches — vivid blues, yellows and greens stand out.” Something like that.
One thing I read once was that you should check a print like this to see how it repeats because that could be important in matching up the design, esp. of upholstery. Not really sure how that works but you could probably google upholstery fabric matching seams.

Hope that helps.

[declutter978]

That fabric is really pretty.   Seems like upholstery or maybe for drapery.

[Antique Frog]

@declutter978 The pattern reminds me of William Morris’s designs. One of Schumacher’s designs is called “Kelmscott Manor”, which is the Morris museum, but the design itself is a Jacobean one.

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