[Eliot Ness]

.....John, I'll bet you will find people pulling cloth out of those console cabinets at Kutztown before they get thrown onto the burn pile, if the cloth is any good at all.........

Ron, those cabinets get picked pretty clean, kind of like what happens to a baby back rib that lands on my dinner plate People are free to go up and pull anything they might need from a cabinet ranging from veneer to pulling the whole cabinet out.

There's nothing wrong with reusing good cloth from an otherwise unusable cabinet.

Before the 70/90 cloth came to market I vividly remember hauling back an old console cabinet from John Caperton's place in Louisville to use the cloth in one of my table sets. I made the mistake of washing it in some Woolite and it almost shrunk too much.

Now that grille cloth is a little harder to come by I plan to experiment with some chemical cleaning to help preserve what original cloth we have left. I'll be sure to document my process and report if it is successful.