I thought about cloth cover tops also, if you go to furniture upholstery fabric stores. There have very pretty fabrics in old designs.
Most remember the term " carpet baggers" depression era traveling sale men, They even sold sewing machines LOL. my mother was a depression era woman. In her traveling to do her art work she made carpet bags, but using upholstery fabric's
Rodney you giving me idea's now on recovering a probably 40/50's case I have, using fabric I cut from the back of a 10's or 20's couch, it's burnt rose color with a floral design. I may only have enough to do a front and back, so cover the top, sides and base with a darker color and no pattern. try to sew all the seams
or over laps the seams, trim those with a thin oak trim