I have a Crypton sectional (recovered my old one about a year and a half ago) and it has been a dream to clean. I just posted on another thread that within the first month of having it recovered, I spilled almost a fill glass of red wine on it. I was sick about it and looked quickly online what the cleaning instruction of my particular fabric was.It was water cleanable and it said to use a small amt of dishwasher soap in plain water to clean, dab it on and off and then dab with clean water. I did and every drop came out with not any indication that there had been a spill or clean-up. About a week later, I noticed an area on the front of the couch that I had missed, so I did the same thing to clean and it came right out.

I think different Crypton fabrics require different cleaning methods. Some are not water cleanable but require a solvent. Perhaps yours was one of those fabrics. I don't quite understand Crypton, because it seems to come from different manufacturers (a method of making it stainproof) where I think Sunbrella is a brand name of one manufacturer. I've never liked the hand feel of Sunbrella at all. My Crypton is from Greenhouse fabrics and feels wonderful, soft, not at all like Sunbrella. You'd never know it was a stain resistant fabric.

This is what I have...manufactured in USA, too, altho some from Greenwood are also from China. If you click on any of their fabric "details" section it will give you a cleaning code. This is W (for water cleanable).