Source for corduroy cloth used as seat inserts

As the title requests, does anyone have a source for the corduroy cloth for use as seat inserts for a 275 in mid 60’s Ferraris as shown below?

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Yes, HVL Exclusive Italian Interiors in the Netherlands keeps it in stock in two colors. I just purchased some a few months ago.

 

Fantastic! Thank you so much.

 

275 GTB/4 09931. The cord inserts on this highly original car are stated to have been replaced with new original stock pieces acquired from the Ferrari factory.

 

Thanks Steve. I had read that but was unsure how likely it would be for me to get them direct if I don’t use them to refresh a car, particularly 30 years after 09931 was freshened. Still it’s an avenue I’ll have to explore. I expected this material would be unobtainium. Happy (shocked) to learn it might not be after all.

 

They were replaced/sourced around 1998 by a company in New York as you probably read also but that was years before Classiche (2006) so things have probably changed since then of course. I believe Ferrari Classiche now use Henk (HVL) in the Netherlands, as @d.brum stated above as a source of these cloth/corduroy seat inserts.

 

Henk is a terrific source, most punctilious about all he does. 3 cheers

 

Factory never used these “corduroy“ inserts inserts for the GTB2

 

Can the cloth as on 275 GTB/4 09913 actually be described as corduroy? It doesn't look like corduroy to me, but I may be wrong. The seat insert fabric as found on 250 GT SWB Competizione 2735 GT below is more what I would call a corduroy fabric with parallel lines?

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Pic found on Michael Fisher's IG page.

 

Same type of original fabric on 275 GTB2 6C alloy 08071.
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Also used on 275 GTB/C 09041.

 

“Corduroy” is a partly incorrect term, but I’ve seen it used in describing these inserts so I stuck with it. The material is more of a woven/patterned fabric and it is available which is great news for those seeking to restore or correct a car. It appears for some time in the 70s the original material wasn’t available so shops substituted a more corduroy type material and the moniker for that style insert stuck. Henk has provided me with all sorts of information verifying the actual material type, colors, and correctness. Very helpful shop and referrals posted above.

 

Apparently Rare Drive Inc in link here replicated the original square-woven fabric seat inserts found on 275 GTB/C 09067.

".....and they additionally found the original seat insert material under a subsequent recovering: a square-woven grey fabric that they duly replicated for reupholstery."

See here.

They could have got it from Henk of course?

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Pic RM Sotheby's.

 

If 9041 is the car in post #10. they did the interior totally incorrectly, wrong color, etc.. Too bad. It WAS a wonderful completely original car.

 

The car in post #10 is the George Bamford owned Alloy 275 GTB 6C said to be chassis #08071.

275 GTB/C 09041 below:
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Pics Tom Hartley Jnr.

Full Tom Hartley Jnr 275 GTB/C 09041 gallery in link here.

 

Len Katz pic of 275 GTB/C 09041 from Dyke Ridgley 275 GTB/C Cavallino article.
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This would make an awesome TM 12C!

 

I believe the proper term for the insert material pattern found on the seats of the car in the original post, 09913. is "houndstooth". It is NOT corduroy. And I disagree with post #8. The houndstooth weave pattern inserts appear yes to have been used on some two-cam GTBs. Examples here from a short-nose, and a long-nose.
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It is just not corduroy or whatever some may call it which I posted in p8.

4 types of this "special" fabric back then, ferrari used two of them
10 stitches, 12 " blocks"