He also solicited discounts from his tradesmen and gifts from suppliers like Pollack, a fabric company.

He had brought the entire color card sent out by the fabric company.

But this season the fabric company has a new angle.

Her father founded and heads Firesafe Products, a fabric company in New York.

Mr. Perez got his high school equivalency diploma, worked in a fabric company, then took a barber training course.

Ms. Roschen said she was inspired by her husband, formerly president of Lee Jofa, a fabric company.

It was the closing of the fabric company that left him unemployed.

Gimpel worked for his family's fabric company, managed by his older brother Eugene.

(Hers was a colleague at a fabric company who taught her how to pull a blanket cover up just so.)

Ms. Felsher said the fabric companies or even the salesmen often took credit for the patterns.