# How To Find This Fabric?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 6, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618 "2015-12-06T15:36:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618/1 "2015-12-06T15:36:26Z")

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My wife is a custom tailor/seamstress. she does alterations, refitting, and custom garments. One of her clients wants a garment made from a fabric which hasn’t been made since the 1970s-how would you obtain it?  
The fabric in question is a nylon lycra, used by the Speedo Co, for swimsuits-the pattern was called “lunar”. She cannot even find a picture of it. does anybody know how to find it? A Google search yielded nothing.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618/2 "2015-12-06T16:06:32Z")

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Has she tried to contact the Speedo Co or its successor? Some companies maintain archives of their products. They may be able, at the very least, to provide a photo or description of the pattern.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618/3 "2015-12-07T04:07:01Z")

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> [@botsgotme](#):
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> One of her clients wants a garment made from a fabric which hasn’t been made since the 1970s-how would you obtain it?  
> (…) She cannot even find a picture of it.

The client wants a very specific pattern on a specific fabric but is unable to supply a picture? Isn’t that a bit much?

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618/4 "2015-12-07T04:14:18Z")

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I see Nylon Lyrca online. She might be best off calling one of the online merchants and asking them if they have the pattern. Just because they don’t have it on their website doesn’t mean they don’t have a few yards of it in a corner somewhere.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-this-fabric/739618/5 "2015-12-07T04:47:37Z")

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Ebay or Etsy?

I would suggest contacting the company too.