Is this the end of special order cloth?

[figheadair]

I'm certain he is. But statements like this...

...ignore that it takes time and labor to thread the loom, perform any maintenance, etc. These, very much, are part of set up costs. To infer that whether the dies are custom blended or not is the only factor determining what is "set up", is misleading. In a case such as he cites, the set up costs have simply been amortized over so many yards as to effectively be pennies per yard... not worth segregating and listing as a setup charge.

But the point is, if I'm prepared to buy the whole bolt as a one off, and therefore there's nothing to hold in stock, why should there be a set up cost when there isn't if I buy a bolt of 'stock' material that will have involved exactly the same set up process?