You go to a good upholsterer who carries good fabrics or at least has access to them You do not buy fabric from a furniture store ever and for sure not from those ones for this sofa. Why not contact Roche Boibos to see who they recommend for fabric. Where is this sofa in your home ? Is it used for everyday TV watching etc ? Fabric stretches is is the reason I never have faric furniture I use for everyday seating. Velvet is even worse because it has nap that gets crushed and looks bad with heavy use. I do love that green though . Get the upholsterer first you will need them anywhay to tell you how much to order so start there . Next would be agood store that handles drapery and uphostery fabirics .

Performance velvets are made by fabric mills, most if not all are made in China and the retailers buy from the mills.

Don't pay a premium markup for fabric from ANY furniture retailer.

A good upholsterer will usually have a wide fabric selection and many will be happy to advise.

NOT ALL fabric stretches, or pills and ignore that dictum above, please, from someone who favors only leather.

More likely, the foam and wrapped compressed on your sofa, and the resulting baggy effect is what you see.

A local to you, to the trade design center is a possibility as well, and may even recommend a designer to help you.

Do you have a local design center? Even if they are To-the-Trade-Only, you can still browse and take photos of the fabric name/number. Then look online to order samples or get your upholsterer to order samples.

There are lots of Performance or Indoor/Outdoor fabrics available now that have great colors, patterns and texture.

Don't buy the fabric from a furniture retailer. Why add an extra middleman to the project?

Roche Bobois ? Give it the fabric it deserves from a upper end fabric company such as Stroheim or Schumacher or Lee Joffa.

Roche is a look. Big bucks for style. A single bench cushion, any fabric, and any maker, has LESS stability than any two or three cushion sofa and your upholsterer will tell you that. Even when tufted.: )

Thanks for the feedback. Y'all are all very against purchasing fabric from a retailer, but I'm not sure I understand why? Are you saying I could find the same fabric for less somewhere else or that I could find a better fabric for the same price? (The ones I am considering are between $50-80 sq yd).

I went to two upholstery stores in my area, one with a lot of fabrics on bolts (nothing even close to what I was looking for) and another place that had books from the higher end manufacturers, but they were not interested in helping me... at all. My upholsterer had fabric samples, again nothing that fit my color choice, but the prices were astronomical - $320/yd is not in my budget.

I agree with you, Jan Moyer, that the bench cushion needs to be augmented or replaced. The upholsterer has included that in the work.

However, I will never step foot in Roche Bobois again. I had a terrible experience with both the product and the customer service.

The AVERAGE price of what you want is 100.00 - 150.00 a yard.

You need about 14 yds for that couch? Plus the labor. It's eight years old. Depending your area? You could have 4k into an 8 year old couch, WITH that bench seat - no guarantee with regards to wrinkles!

Just saying, sofa planet has become nightmare planet. A good sofa these days? Plan 6k to 8k for really good fabric, on a really good frame. Not an online purchase btw.

Strie Velvet. Schumacher . Ask me how many times I have used this in how many colors?!

I don't pay this price, I am trade.....but yes, it is a great fabric.

Here is is.....Wayfair

So there is a local design center here in Houston. I can't tell from their website which of the fabric showrooms allow the public to come it, but will check it out this week. Thanks for the feedback!

You’re paying a markup vs buying direct and the first thing you might want to do is to read up about the better velvet for upholstery. This list is only part of lots more info (couldn’t provide its link).

We have had two velvet couches; the first bought custom and the second at a furniture store. The custom lasted over 20 years and was still in great shape, while the other one started to stretch/sag within a few years. What you pay upfront will be worth it in the long run.

A design center can provide you a designer, who has the ability to price in her OWN manner. Nobody is going to sell you anything minus a profit. There is wholesale pricing, which a designer would have with her OWN account with a source. Most designers work through a design center. why? It takes vast resources, a lot of hands on help to maintain an adequate, or wide fabric library. A consortium , a collective, is the basis for to the trade only design centers.

Your best bet? Get a designer. : ) More access, more possibilities, and maybe not just the limitations of the internet.: ) and who KNOWS what he/she may suggest when seeing your whole space?

I've never had a problem walking into any high end designer showroom in LA or Boston to browse (Schumacher, Kravet, Donghia, Holly Hunt, etc). Sometimes the sales people offer to help, but I politely decline. Act like you own the place and know what you are doing ... no one will question you!

One day I was browsing at Kravet at the same time as Mary McDonald of Million Dollar Decorator! She was definitely acting like she owned the place LOL.

I feel your frustration. The really great upholsters I have worked with don't have books or sell fabric. Or they have books collecting dust from 20 years ago that they never use. They work with designers who supply the fabric or at least tell them what to order.

I'm not a designer but used to get great deals on fabric and would bring my fabric to the shop. But those days are gone as so many retail fabric stores have closed and almost everything now is to the trade.

You can go to a design center, look at fabrics, take the numbers down and try to purchase them online. I don't know too many designers who would want to take on just a sofa recovering project.

Most recently, I was so frustrated I too went to Room and Board to look at samples too. And I live in NYC, where you'd think I could find a decent fabric store!

I don't know the quality of fabric at Calico or if they have one near you. They still will deal with retail customers.

The other benefit of hiring a designer is getting her leads on local upholsters. She can tell you who is easy to work with, who has a good value/quality ratio, and save you a ton of time.

@Kendrah, thank you! Your suggestion was the most actionable! I went to Calico and found an olive green chenille from Kravet. Retail price was $69.99/yd and the sales associate gave me 20% off so it ended up at $55.99/yd.

I did reach out to a designer I found on Thumbtack (a source I've had very good luck with). She seemed very nice, but at the end of the day, I was pretty committed to my vision and didn't want to pay someone who might try to talk me out of it.

The sofa was delivered to the upholsterer today and I might get it back as early as next Friday.

To those of you who suggested the wrinkles indicated that the foam seat needed to be replaced; the upholsterer said the foam was in good shape but he tore the fabric off the underside of the sofa to show me there was zero support there. So he will be adding webbing to the frame. Also he is going to wrap the foam in some sort of fabric....Dacron maybe? to give it additional structure and prevent wrinkles.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I'll post pics when I get it back.

That is a beautiful sofa fabric!

Hooray! Don't forget to post pictures.

Beautiful! That is a great looking sofa!