Ross Fabrics
One of the fabric houses whose pattern books we keep at the workshop. Tell us the room and the piece, and we will bring the Ross Fabrics books to you.
- Founded
- 1933
- Where
- Leeds, England
- Known for
- Trade-only upholstery chenilles, flat weaves and velvets
About Ross Fabrics
Sims Ross founded S Ross and Co Limited in the centre of Leeds in 1933, trading solely in upholstery sundries. Companies House records the company as incorporated on 27 May 1933 and still active.
In 1968 the business moved to an old Methodist chapel in Morley on the outskirts of Leeds, and it was there that it began trading as Ross Fabrics. It moved to Lower Wortley in 1978, stayed twenty-two years, and moved to its present site in 2000, at which point it stopped selling sundries altogether. All members of the Ross family have now retired from the business.
It is a trade-only supplier and does not sell to the public. It holds stock of over 2,500 different fabrics, by full roll or cut length, usually on next day delivery, and carries a range of AquaClean treated fabrics that can be cleaned with water alone.
Next day delivery on 2,500 upholstery cloths is exactly what a busy workshop needs. AquaClean is also the honest answer for a household with young children or a dog: it is not indestructible, but water and a cloth will take out most of what happens to a sofa in a real house.
Sources, checked in July 2026: rossfabrics.co.uk/about-us.php, rossfabrics.co.uk/aquaclean.php, Companies House
Where we use it.
Reupholstery
Chenilles, flat weaves and velvets held in stock, so a job is not waiting on a mill run.
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Heavier upholstery cloths with the body a deep seat needs.
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AquaClean treated fabrics for a family house, where the cloth has to survive daily life.
More on thisNot in the digital library, in the room.
We hold this house in the pattern-book room rather than in the online finder, which covers the collections we have photographed ourselves. Come and turn the pages, or tell us the room and we will bring the books to you.
Houses that sit well beside it.
Bring the room, we will bring the books.
Send a photograph and a rough size and we will reply with a personal quote, using an average price fabric.