Fall in love with performance fabrics!
If you’ve lusted after the look of a white sofa—but resisted temptation for practical reasons—resist no more! Calico’s extensive selection of 1,800+ performance fabrics will make you fall in love with your furniture again. They’re perfect for family rooms, media rooms, dining chairs, kitchen banquettes, bedrooms—in short, any place where spills from people or pets may occur.
Carefree cleanability
Most stains come out with a little soap and water (see tips at the end)—even barbecue sauce, chocolate frosting, coffee, wine, ketchup and mustard! Many fabrics are also bleach cleanable and resist liquids, fading and odors.
Crypton® Home fabrics are unfazed by spilled wine, pets who love to lounge on the furniture or kids with sippy-cups and sticky fingers. All are reasons for choosing worry-free performance fabrics for soft furnishings. Spills bead up and can often be removed with little cleaning needed!
Indoors or out, we’ve got you covered!
Can you actually live in your living room? Performance products help create indoor and outdoor spaces where nothing is too precious for everyday life. Fabrics from Crypton® Home, Fortress®Performance, InsideOut Performance Fabrics® and Sensuede® faux suede are great choices for interior uses.
Wovens from the Fortress line of performance fabrics from Richloom are treated to resist spills so that they can be quickly blotted up and removed from the surface.
For outside or inside use, look to Sunbrella®, InsideOut®, Fortress® Performance or Calico Indoor/Outdoor fabrics. All are bleach cleanable. In addition to easy care features, they are also highly fade resistant, mildew and odor resistant.
And now, most all are PFAS-free, meaning that their performance finish ingredients are made without fluorine, a common chemical that lingers in the environment. While PFAS-free fabrics are not quite as effective against oil-based stains, they are still water-resistant and very cleanable.
Live in your living room with performance fabrics! From the Christiane Lemieux Collection for Richloom at Calico, BROOKE FTR in Aegean is on the Monterey daybed with accent pillows of decorative fabrics (not performance).
“The most sought after and beautiful interiors are taking advantage of easy-care performance fabric for high-use pieces and high-traffic areas in the home.”
Christiane Lemieux
No need to compromise on style!
Performance fabrics come in such a wide variety of designs, textures and colors that we can find just about any style desired: patterned jacquards, velvets, faux suedes, solids, tweeds and chunky chenilles, bouclés, prints—even leather!
Over the past decade, performance fabrics have undergone a transformation. InsideOut Performance Fabrics (above) illustrate the wide variety of looks available today. They are woven in the USA and, as the name suggests, may be used both indoors—and out!
Check out our e-catalog on Performance Fabrics!
There you will also find a chart Comparing Performance Fabrics so that it’s easy to find the right one for you.
Spot cleaning for light to medium stains:
Blot up liquids on surface and brush off loose dirt.
Make a cleaning solution of 1 cup lukewarm water and ¼ teaspoon of mild dishwashing detergent i.e. Dawn. Apply with a misting spray bottle.
Lightly scrub the stained area with a sponge or soft bristle brush, working from outside in.
Rinse thoroughly with a sponge to remove all soap residue. Blot excess moisture with a clean towel.
Repeat steps 3 - 4 as needed and allow fabric to air dry.
For bleach cleanable outdoor fabrics:
Follow the technique above to treat stains, using a cleaning solution of 1 part bleach to 10 parts water (i.e. ¼ cup bleach to 2½ cups water).
Remember when?
Decades ago, plastic slipcovers were the closest thing to a performance fabric. Today, a kid’s birthday party is no longer a potential disaster scene!
