Premium Fabric does not mean expensive fabric, and expensive fabric does not mean premium fabric. Confusing? The price you pay for something is not always a measure of its objective quality or subjective quality. Our Ramie linen costs almost the same as our premium heavy-weight linen. Sometimes we get a deal and it is cheaper (price-wise) than the ramie lightweight linen. The price of our Indian fabric was very low (because we got a deal on all of it) when it got burnt during the looting it became exclusive and its value went through the roof. Bazin is ridiculously expensive but it is not higher quality compared to snow linen (which is used for work wear). Fabric from Dubai is very unique, cheap in Dubai but after customs not so cheap when landed in South Africa. So the price of a fabric does not usually indicate its value or quality.

When a big company like Woolworths ends a season they might have 100m of left over fabric that was used on one design. The supplier is not going to burn it, so they let it go onto the market where it eventually finds it way to people like us. It might be the best fabric in the world, but the price is low because it is end of the range and written off. 

Bazin African fabric

Bazin is not a very strong fabric, but it is very expensive.

got this cheap because of a factory deal. It is now impossible to get. you can tell from the embossing that it is a luxury fabric. But when people get stuck with it they just want to recover their cost and will sell it cheap if you take it off their hands.