Usually, homeowners do their best in order to get the cheapest furniture possible. However, for all you mansion-owners out there who want to seemingly revive the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous program (that’s infinitely more fascinating to watch than MTV Cribs), here are some some of the most upholstery fabric materials you can get your hands on. You have wool, silk, fur, and linen. Take note that they’re all natural fibers rather than synthetic ones. What’s good for your clothing can also be good for your furniture. Meanwhile, cotton falls somewhere in between the expensiveness of those four and the inexpensiveness of synthetic fibers like nylon, polyester, and spandex. Their expensiveness also depends on their manufacturing quality. Keep all of this in mind when buying expensive upholstery fabric.

What’s the Deal with Expensive Fabrics?

• Wool from Peruvian Vucana sheep—the national animal of Peru—is known to fetch expensive prices. This wool is the most expensive wool in the world because this sheep species is only shorn every three years and the resulting material costs $1,800 to $3,000 per yard. So if a scarf will cost around $20,000, imagine how much a couch made of Vucana sheep wool would cost! A fortune, no doubt!

• Meanwhile, there’s also Vucana silk (also expensive) and Cashmere silk that are known for their quality. High prices are also to be expected of Mulberry silk because it’s the softest and finest silk in the world, which means it’s the most expensive silk known to man. There are other costly silk variants out there, like Velvet silk, Charmeuse silk, and Spider silk. Meanwhile, fur is the oldest fabric worn for ages. It’s arguably as old as mankind.

• The best fur upholstery and home decor items such as leopard fur prints are considered the most expensive fur fabric (although some might argue it’s also the tackiest, if only because so many cheap copycat fake leopard furs are being sold as status symbol products). Finally, linen is the most expensive fabric taken from flax plants. There are affordable linens out there but the best ones can fetch at prices that could give silk items a run for their money.