If it is anything like what my friend went through then this might have happened with the fabric too. My friend designed signs for your home. She and her hsuband owned a factory too that made the designs. Once a year they would go to a show to try and sell to store chains their products. The show is supposed to put producers of products like them together with buyers for store chains. At the show would also be businessman from certain very large thrid world country pretenting to be store buyers but they would really copy the designs to make in their factory in their home country. She was very frustrated with this.