Excellent! I've emailed the Cumbrian woman too, but I must admit I thought it would be a more production process just because of the potential amount needed. How many metres of fabric would it need to do a car, and thus say 10 cars as a first run? The rears of the seats were in the same cloth too...
If we have samples, and the repeat pattern can thus be easily worked out - seems like a great project!
I would have thought that those cars picking high quality modern alternatives (someone mentioned trimming something in what they do railway seats in recently?) would be easily diverted to a proper Austin specification re-creation, even if they weren't originally in Tapestry.
I've put a couple more detailed pics of the cloth's edges up on the SevenRK site thread.
btw, is this sort of cloth we a re discussing 'Rep' as referred to in the Austin lists as 'wool rep'? I'd never heard of such but it seems to be a thing in its own right rather than a shortening of a word. They also refer to Bedford Cord and Moquette variously, as well as the leathery things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep_(fabric)
If we have samples, and the repeat pattern can thus be easily worked out - seems like a great project!
I would have thought that those cars picking high quality modern alternatives (someone mentioned trimming something in what they do railway seats in recently?) would be easily diverted to a proper Austin specification re-creation, even if they weren't originally in Tapestry.
I've put a couple more detailed pics of the cloth's edges up on the SevenRK site thread.
btw, is this sort of cloth we a re discussing 'Rep' as referred to in the Austin lists as 'wool rep'? I'd never heard of such but it seems to be a thing in its own right rather than a shortening of a word. They also refer to Bedford Cord and Moquette variously, as well as the leathery things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep_(fabric)