Welcome back to City Stream from the Pike Place Market,
where we're celebrating Black History Month
by highlighting some of the Black owned businesses here at the market.
And one of them is Our Fabric Stash.
The owner is Deborah Boone. Thank you very much for being here, appreciate it.
So tell me about the name and how it coincides with the business.
Well, Our Fabric Stash is definitely a reflection of a collection,
a collection of stashes from all across the country and literally all around the world.
- So you're not just local.
- No. - Your national and global.
Exactly.
Fabric comes from all over.
It comes from Africa.
It comes from Asia.
It comes from everywhere. Turkey.
Oh, really?
- Yeah, it does.
So how people get to know you nationally, internationally?
I would say word of mouth and specifically being at the market
gives us that global presence and folks travel all over the world and they tell friends
and they said, make sure when you're in Seattle, you stop at Our Fabric Stash.
- Now, you've been here since, what, 2015? - 2015, yes.
- But you've been doing this kind of work for a long time.
I have.
I would say I came up with the idea in ‘94 and I should say that the store pays
homage to the woman who taught me how to sew. - And who was that?
Her name was Cora Pinson and she was a city council woman
in Olympia, and after she passed in ‘94 is when I came up with the idea.
Because I viewed her stash as her legacy and I wanted it to be, to be shared.
However, it was so because nobody in her family knew how to sew.
So it was at that point I, I came up with the idea, I said this is her stash.
And then 20 years removed from that my stash looked like her stash. (laughs)
- Well, your stash is doing well.
Deborah, thank you so much, I appreciate it.
Yep, thank you.