It's best to use plain fabrics at first than to add this additional hurdle while you're learning.
Pollack, a company that usually sells only to the trade, will discount hundreds of fabrics at its first warehouse sale, May 6 to 8 (Collage, a 55-inch-wide jacquard, above, regularly $99 a yard, will be $15 15050 Varick Street (Spring Street), 10th floor, (212) 627-7766 or pollackassociates.com.
The mechanical properties of 40 samples from 8 different types of fabrics were tested at first.
2. Doc, a modern sofa with a removable cover, converts into bunk beds with a built-in ladder; $5,950 as shown (or $4,995 to $7,425, depending on fabric) at Resource Furniture, 969 Third Avenue (58th Street), (212) 753-2039 or resourcefurniture.com.com
"Pull on the mainsail!" he cried, with rather more enthusiasm than nautical accuracy as the fabric cover failed to come off at first tug.
Her finances were so precarious that at first she bought fabric at retail -- partly, she said, because she wanted to keep the business a secret until it was ready, partly because she didn't think she would get credit as a young entrepreneur.
The fabric square from a red cabbage stew appeared turquoise at first.
At first the ailerons, elevators and rudder were fabric-covered.
At first, only the wood framework of fuselages was replaced by tubular aluminum trusses connected with mechanical fasteners or welding; coverings were still sewn and glued fabric.
Just in case your fabric mousepad is not colorfast, get only a corner of it wet at first.
