The Fabric of her Life: Page Nash, owner of Rose Arbor Fabrics, shares two important pieces in her happy heart

By: Ashley Daniels

Two great loves in Page Nash’s life have been her Rose Arbor Fabrics business for the last 30-plus years and her fur babies – and sometimes the two even intertwine.

She shares that Tootie, a cat Nash nursed back to good health and went on to live for 19 years before she passed onto the Rainbow Bridge, once made an appearance at Rose Arbor.

“When I got her, she was six ounces,” says Nash, “so we brought her up to Rose Arbor and bottle-fed her and kept her up here for months and months. … She and I have been through a lot together.”

Today, Nash and her husband are the proud owners of two cats, Pee Wee and Batesie, whom she also had a hand in greatly improving their health.

“These cats are always special,” she says, “and they always seem to need help.”

Nash also loves her dog, a 6-year-old Brittany Spaniel named Captain that the couple adopted from Gaffney, South Carolina.

“This is our second Brittany Spaniel because they’re just such loving dogs,” she says. “Captain and I walk four miles every morning in the neighborhood.”

Nash says that, although Captain’s breed are natural hunters, he is instead a fishing dog, which seems natural here along the coast.

“I wish you could see him!” she says with a laugh. “He goes on the boat with us to The Point and digs for ghost crabs, and people love watching him. He looks like he’s going to dig all the way to China, with his tiny butt up there and his tail wagging.

“He also loves to ride in the truck with Skeeter, his dad,” she continues. “He loves to do anything with Skeeter – that’s his best friend. I’m just the one who feeds him and walks him every morning.”

While Nash says she doesn’t have the time to volunteer because she still works five days a week at Rose Arbor Fabrics, she does make sure to donate to All for Paws, a nonprofit pet adoption center in Pawleys Island.

Nash took over ownership of the Myrtle Beach Rose Arbor location in 1991 from Rose Heath, who originally opened the store in 1980. She opened the store’s sister location in Pawleys Island in 2015.

“Every day is different. … Every day,” she says. “You never know who is going to come through the front door, what is going to sell, what jobs are going to come up, which makes it fun!”

Both stores have an inventory of more than just fabrics; they also sell furniture and home accessories, like chairs, sofas, tables, and dressers. Accessory offerings are lighting, wall art, bedding, pillows, home décor, and rugs.

Fabric options include upholstery for indoor and outdoor furniture (Bella Dura, Belle Maison, Covington, Cowtan and Tout, Crypton, and more), drapery (Covington, Pindler, Norbar, Stroheim, Fabricut, and many more), interior fabrics for upholstery to recover club chairs, swivel gliders, dining room chairs or couches, indoor and outdoor fabrics to withstand sun, wind and beach living, durable and stain-resistant performance fabrics for high-traffic areas in the home, and special order fabrics.

Rose Arbor Fabrics also has an experienced interior design team in-house to help customers from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Georgetown, South Carolina, visualize their home spaces with products in the store, and decide what is best for each room (color, main concern or goal, and style).

For more information on Rose Arbor Fabrics or to schedule a free interior design consultation for either location, visit Rosearborfabrics.com.