https://www.brooklyngeneral.com

Brooklyn General Store resides tucked away on a sweet block West of the Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill neighborhoods.  At the north end of Red Hook, this commercial block on Union Street used to be a thriving shopping block for all types of foods and goods.   Brooklyn General’s home within the Old Frank’s Department Store is a throw back to that era, with its preserved floor to ceiling shelves, rolling ladders and classic old wooden floors.  The vintage interior is not reproduced, just uncovered, cleaned and painted.  If the original shelving isn’t enough to hold all the goods, vintage rolling shoe racks, stacks of old blueberry boxes, vintage pie safes, vintage hardware displays and shelving built from reclaimed wood house the rest.

Brooklyn General Store was created in an effort to provide the highest quality materials to a community of devoted artists and craftspeople and to promote making things by hand through inspiration and education.  Not only is it a place to feast your eyes and hands on glorious colors and patterns and textures  but it is a place that respects and honors a time when a trip to the country store was a way of life.  It is a place where a visit for a yard of fabric turns in to a hour sharing and teaching with other people in our creative Brooklyn community.  It is a haven where you can leave behind the city swirl and relish in a quiet place filled with inspiration and support for any project you can dream of.

Following its mission to promote all things handmade, Brooklyn General offers a wide variety of classes in knitting, sewing, quilting, furniture upholstery, felting, spinning, rug hooking and embroidery.  Classes are limited in size in order for students to have ample individual attention.  Studio time with our fantastic new BERNINA classroom machines is also available.  BrooklynGeneral.com was created to share our carefully picked goods with all the creative souls outside of Brooklyn, NY.