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Although I would love to live out in the boonies on a few acres or at least far away from all the L.A. traffic, there are times I am thankful to live in this sprawling metropolis full of great vintage resources.  I wandered into M & L Fabric to find a simple vinyl upholstery to match my 1949 golden yellow linen Formica dinette table and chairs.  Back in the days when I used to make a lot of costumes, I frequented M & L fabrics on a regular basis, but I had not been in there in years. This place is amazing with a giant warehouse-sized store with both discount, discontinued, and new fabrics, including a large selection of interesting upholstery and vinyl, like Naugahyde. The best part is I was able to find retro upholstery fabric remanents and newer rolls of 1950s and 1960s vinyl looks. Most of it is marine vinyl upholstery that is easy to wipe clean and used for reupholstering retro dinette chairs and booths.

At the time of this post, they don’t do orders online, but if you are in the L.A. Orange County area, it is worth stopping by.  However, their inventory constantly changes, and what is in there one week, might be gone the next.  On my most recent trip in there, the coolest items I found in the vinyl section in the back room were a couple dozen almost full rolls of sparkle vinyl, perfect for recovering chairs for a 1950’s diner table, especially for anyone looking for a substitute for cracked Ice vinyl or looking to find retro upholstery fabric.   All the rolls were under $14 a yd. They also had some neat mid-century modern patterns and 1960’s looking types of vinyl that had roses, leaves, or swirly patterns.  Most of the mid-century types of vinyl were either gold, burgundy, copper, or silver.  I took pictures of all the ones I liked, but they had many more weird and wild ones to look at and plain shades of blue, green, beige, yellow, red, and brown.  This is the place I bought the yellow and dark red vinyl Naugahyde to recover the chairs for my 1949 Howell dinette set. I was unable to get enough from either the red or the yellow vinyl remnants that I liked for my 1950s dinette chairs, but between the two, I made do. The 1950s dining table and chairs are done.

While I was in there I also browsed through all the quilting and home decor fabrics.  They had a few that had retro designs, but I already bought a vintage kitchen fabric off eBay last month.

If you live local, the store is located at: M & L Discount Fabrics 3430 West Ball Road, Anaheim, CA 92804.  714-995-3178. If you are out of the area, check eBay or Amazon for similar marine fabric that could work good for a diy recovering of vintage diner chairs.

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