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Xavier
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26/09/2011 9:21 pm  

I'm considering buying a hopsack-upholstered Eames Aluminium Group chair. I'm curious to know the composition of the hopsack fabric. Is is wool? Does it contain any synthetic fibres? Is it subject to pilling?

Any knowledge/experience welcomed.


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Robert Leach
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26/09/2011 9:42 pm  

I
suspect it will have some man-made fibres, for durability.
Try here:
https://www.hermanmiller.com/CMF/CDA/index.html#pid=39


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fastfwd
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26/09/2011 11:57 pm  

Currently, Herman Miller's entire line of chair fabric is man-made.
See the PDF linked below.
Are you buying new, or vintage?
http://www.hermanmiller.com/MarketFacingTech/hmc/pricing/PBA_HMC.pdf


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Spanky
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27/09/2011 12:31 am  

I don't see hopsack offered a...
I don't see hopsack offered as an option on the Herman Miller site, unless they gave it a name other than hopsack.
I see vintage chairs done in Girard hopsack, which I believe is all wool or mostly wool (some nylon, if anything). I've never seen vintage wool hopsack with pills. I don't *think* that nylon pills, either. What does pill is acrylic---also, olefin, which is probably just a trade name for a particular kind of acrylic. But I doubt that Herman Miller puts olefin fabric on their chairs. I think it's kind of a low-end fabric.


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Xavier
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27/09/2011 6:07 am  

Vintage
Sorry - should have said that it's a vintage chair. Looks like it's from the seventies or eighties (has a four star base).


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LRF
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27/09/2011 8:25 am  

the only fabric that is...
the only fabric that is similar is Hallingdale check it out
http://www.maharam.com/scripts/vl.cgi?script=v2_details&source=search&cu...


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