JoAnn

Just start calling local shops

Any fabric store should have it. Sunbrella is probably the best known line and there's also Waverly's Sun and Shade collection.

Look in your phone book to see if you have an Upholstery fabric outlet.If not and upholstery shop carries the outdoor line,as well as Joann's and any other decent fabric store..As someone else said,sunbrella is the best.
Kathi

Hancock Fabrics and the Ballard Designs website. I also agree that Sunbrella is the best.

Sunbrella (Glen Raven Mills), Para, and Dicklon (don't know the mills) are the big trade names; most of the "designer/fashion" prints are made by those mills, too. But what you are really looking for is 100% solution dyed ACRYLIC. The fibre is what makes the difference in sun fastness. If you want to purchase trims (brush fringe, bullion fringe, cording) you want to look for 100% solution dyed ACRYLIC in those, too.

Acrylics are the standard in the awning, marine canvas, and outdoor furniture fabrics, they come in a variety of weights/"hands". You want to use 100% polyester thread (69 or 92 weight), plastic zipper chain and plastic sliders; esp. if you're in a maritime location.

Whatever site you visit, make sure the fabric you purchase is acrylic. And be aware that yellow, red, terra cotta fade like the dickens... they just DO; it's the chemicals used to obtain the color, because blues, greens, black, grey... last for years with no hint of fading.

Fabric dot com

Here is a link that might be useful: try here

Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC carries Sunbrella. You can call them and ask about what they have over the phone if you can't get there.

Sunbrella is the best - I work at the Corporate Office for Glen Raven, Inc. here in Burlington. :)

Teresa