you can buy it from Hydes

Thanks for the response Andy. I looked through their website, and while there is still an Alcantara tab, the page no longer exists. I will contact them tomorrow, but I'd expect it will be the same case with them. According to my current distributor, Alcantara is no longer being sold to wholesalers, they are only providing material for OEM use. This happened within the last year.

Hydes is the exclusive dealer of Alcantara in the US from my understanding.

The article you linked says that they are North America's largest distributor of Alcantara, but if you look ar Alcantara's website, they no longer list any distributor for the US. I'll be calling Hydes shortly to find out if it is still available through them or not, and I'll post what I find out from them.

I recently tracked down a distributor for Novasuede made by Majilite. Will be trying it in the near future.

Just spoke with Aaron from Hydes. They do indeed still sell Alcantara. So I guess I'll be setting up an account with them :smile:

Thanks again for the help!

bought alcantara from hydes twice this week.
they're great to deal with.

Have you had the new alcantara batch come through yet over the pond?

Search for Dinamica...(Mercedes and Mini are using it for example....) or Comfort (from Mah.de in Germany with an online shop) ...Both Materials are very good competitors to Alcantara...For both there are different backings depends on what you want to use for...

As Krunoslav had already said, Dinamica and Comfort would be an alternative. I don't like the microfibre of Dynamica as much as I do with Alcantara. The fibres are not as fine as in the Alcantra.
There are two great advantages to the Comfort of the MAH they have a very great deep black. In contrast, Alcantara's "deep black" still appears anthracite. (A photo for comparison: I combined black Bentley Nappa with the black Comfort) And this black is also available with a waterproof coating on the back.
Schauenburg also has a wide range of microfibre fabrics (I think it should be Dynamica)

You can order alcantara from Relicate.com

I want to share an ebay link as an option to get Alcantara material:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-Alcantara-Stoff-Pannel-SCHWARZ-150cm-Preis-fur-1-00mx1-50m-Kein-Imitat/183176744561?hash=item2aa62f4e71%3Ag%3AT6gAAOxyRNJSneX-&_sacat=0&_nkw=alcantara&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313
I received an email from Gulf Fabrics, as follows:
Cesar,
We can no longer supply the Alcantara Automotive material. Hopefully, we will be able to begin ordering again in 2019. We only have limited stock available of a couple of colors.
Best regards,
Joe Martinez/Gulf Fabrics, Inc.

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