On behalf of the eight upholstery fabric manufacturers that comprise the National Textile Association Upholstery Fabrics Committee, I wish to assure the furniture makers about which Gary Evans wrote that U.S. Fabrics are not hard to find. Yes the loss of Joan and Quaker has reduced the fabric resources in this country, but a wide selection of upholstery fabrics at varied price points are made by those who still operate successfully in the United States. Not only do U.S. mills offer more style and better delivery as one of your interviewees properly noted, but we are more flexible and our quality is consistently higher than those mills from China and elsewhere who are offering very generic looking product. Those furniture makers who want to look different from the company down the hall would do well to eschew the me too product from China and turn to the infinitely creative mills of the United States.

Just to make it easier to find us, the following United States fabric makers are ready and willing to fill customers' needs: American Silk Mills, Craftex, Microfibres, Milliken & Co., Sunbury Textile Mills, Valdese Weavers, Wearbest and my own company Weave Corporation. We are all listed on the site www.nationaltextile.org, just click on the "Our Members and Their Products" link on the home page.