Zook’s Fabric Store

What a wide selection of adorable cotton prints, lovely rayon and other apparel fabrics! Zook’s offers nice deals (such as their pink and green sticker items) and great quality. Their remnant table is worth poring over as well. I look forward to visiting again — the drive through pretty Amish country is definitely a bonus too.

Best selection of food fabric ever. Next time I can only bring cash! It’s a wonder my credit card did not explode… Huge selection. Be sure to grab a cart!

Zook’s is an excellent place to get fabric at great prices. I is an Amish run store with an excellent selection of fabrics. It is always well stocked. It has a notions shop attached to it. And of course the staff knows their stuff when it comes to quilting!

My wife who is a quilter loves this place for fabric. Great selection, nice staff, reasonable prices and a big selection of remnants. They have some handmade items as well at good prices.
OK…might wife «ghost» wrote this review… I had nothing to do w/​this. Why she won’t make her own damn profile I don’t know!!!

I loved this fabric store. Visiting family in Ohio we made a side trip to Amish Country in Pennsylvania. The store from the front looks like nothing special but once you walk inside look out. I bought alot of pannels that I have never seen anywhere else. I shop on line alot and thought I had seen alot fo fabric but I found things here that I knew I woldn’t find anywhere else. DO NOT miss this one if your in the area.

Great little Amish fabric store, much larger than it appears from the front!
Lots of selection for quilting. If you are looking for novelty/​character fabrics, the selection is good, but limited. If you are quilting and looking for interesting patterns, textures and variety, you hit the jackpot! Their prices are less than Joann’s as well, and you are helping the local economy.
Very friendly, helpful staff. :)

Love that they have remnant pieces /​sample pieces for cheap! I tend to have lots of ‘mini’ projects or practice attempts. Staff was super helpful! :)

amazing. by far the best store i visited in intercourse. while everything else is ridden with tourists and obnoxious small children, Zook’s seems to be the once place where the locals actually shop. it starts off as a fabric shop, but somewhere along the line you’ll realize you’re actually in a findings and clothing store, and then a toy store, and finally a housewares store. all packed into this one little house.
as far as prices of fabric go, they rival any city or suburban store, including the big chains. prices for woven cottons are generally around $ 6-​$ 6.50 (compare to $ 10 at joann’s). unlike the tourist-​ridden fabric stores that surround it, Zook’s is not quilting-​focused. although they sell beautiful batiks and solids (for right around 6 bucks), they do not hang crazy intricate quilts that you’ll never be able to make yourself all over the place. there is no pretension whatsoever. they have a great selection of flannel, fleece, and cotton that make this a great all-​purpose fabric store. i got some really beautiful hand-​painted fabric and i can’t wait to make it into some kind of skirt.
a woman i spoke to in the aisles said that even for the area, Zook’s is quite a bit cheaper than the competition. she also mentioned that their sister store, Sauder’s, is even cheaper but kind of out of the way. i wish i had time to check it out but i didn’t. by the way, this woman was from, like, maryland, or something, and drags her husband here on a regular basis. now that’s a dedicated customer base.
anyway, here’s the layout of this (very interesting) store:
enter into a vast array of suiting fabrics, and some «plus more» items such as mugs and souvenirs. straight ahead are the many aisles of flannel and then woven cotton fabrics, sorted by theme. in the back is a sale section and down a few steps is a remnant section. the back has some fat quarters and polar fleece too.
once you hit the back wall, double doors lead you into Nancy’s Notions and Clothing. one aisle is filled with every-​colored threads, zippers, bias tape, and buttons. another, amish garb like hats and long dresses. not in a mocking way though– ample buggy parking on the side of the house allows the local amish population to shop here for clothing. most of the salespeople seemed to be amish as well. it was really refreshing after seeing kitchen kettle village and being totally disappointed with how artificial everything was.
at the back wall of Nancy’s is another set of double doors, leading to the Country Cupboard. here, there is a mix of children’s toys and board games, along with some home decorations (barn stars, candlesticks, wooden trunks). the real gems are hidden down a dark stairway in the basement of the house. this is one of the best kitchenware stores i’ve seen. not that the selection is anything like williams sonoma– it’s all about the bizarre and quaint here. i don’t know how to describe it really except for saying that i purchased a very detailed red glass chicken that holds what i’m assuming is candy. it also looks like it could make a cute butter dish but i like it better out on my dining room table. from cafeteria trays to 3-​foot-​long whisks, if nothing else this place is worth a good browse.
by this point, you’ve completely forgotten that you had originally walked into a fabric store. if you’re like me, an hour or so has passed and you didn’t even realize. on the way back to the front of the store, you’ll see a scattering of things you didn’t see the first time around but now realize you must have. but your husband is exhausted and can’t wait to breathe fresh air, so you bid farewell and try to figure out the next time you’ll be able to sneak a trip here.
by the way, the fabric portion does have a pretty nice website if you’re not local but you want to check out what they have. it’s