I know that we have discussed this a bit on the forum before, but I wanted to ask again if anybody can speak to the width of horsehair fabric. Specifically, I am familiar with the following two suppliers of fabric.
http://www.johnboydtextiles.co.uk/http://www.horsehairfabrics.com/What vexes me, so to speak, is that I have a settee in need of new upholstery that has a seemless black horsehair fabric on the seat that is wider than 30 inches (front of frame to back of frame, as measured along the fabric). I am left to assume that horsehair fabric was once available in larger widths than what is available today--and I recognize that the width is limited to the actual length of the horse's hair.
Does anybody know of a source of either wider fabric or a substitute material that would pass as a convincing stand-in?
Thank you,
Jason
