How would you store fabric?

I have a home business with fabric involved. I'm a big DIYer, but can't decide best way to store fabric and make it accessable. I can't put them in drawer standing cause they will find on itself. And if I build shelf it will need like 40 shelves, 1 for each color.

>>1226688
>>1226692

go to one of those fabric stores. they are great places to meet women, by the way, as compared to bars.

storing fabric requires a lot of room or an elaborate filing system that tells you that blue suede is at or about level 74 in stack 139.

>>1226688
Stack them up like pic related oh wait

When I pull out one I need the stack is very heavy and ends up sliding and starts leaning and covering up the other colors because it's not straight. I have lots of giant filing cabinets at my disposal, but can't stack these vertically. I did consider TUBES. Get a stack of a single color, roll it and stuff into tube, then stack the tubes somehow to where they are labeled and organized. My test did not work so great though. Maybe I can build some kind of flip-book type thing. Each "page" could hold like 10 sheets of each color with a cover that keeps them flat. It could flip similar to a time display or like a poster display case at the store.

File: 1492514205427.jpg (27KB, 1221x615px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 1221x615px

>>1226688
>not rolling fabric for storage
Shoe shelves might be about right.

File: fabric.jpg (102KB, 502x487px) Image search: [Google]

102KB, 502x487px

>>1226688

Depends on the size. I usually just fold what I've got and stick it in a drawer or a clear plastic tub, but I did see this the other day. Seems like a decent way to store quilting squares if you have a rail or two and a load of clip hangers.

File: 3348561f-b6ed-4c99-a889-2174bea98fae_1.90926ce602d97f324b25531d90283837.jpg (41KB, 600x800px) Image search: [Google]

41KB, 600x800px

>>1226688
How much are you talking about?
A couple yards of a couple of flavors, or production quantities?

I have a few yds of a couple different colors/styles. Use flat-ish plastic totes, shove 'em in there. One for packcloth, another for duck and cordura, another for the oddball expensive high-heat-resistant stuff, and one of those cheap 3-drawer things for grommets, tools/scissors, snaps, nylon webbing, velcro, all the other shit.
>Pic related.

>>1226688
Three-ring binders with a swatch of the fabric in the plastic cover.

>>1226688
I just throw all my scrap fabric and ill-fitting clothes in a big bag desu

if i bought proper fabric though id probably fold it to the correct length to store in a closet or w/e and then roll it once it'll fit depth-wise

>>1226688
One of those giant bags that you suck out all the air with a vacuum.
>>1226756
Or like this if you're not autistic.