Several of our awnings had sun-decomposed stitching on the seams last year. When a helping friend and I removed the awnings by unrolling and sliding them carefully out of the bead-grooves, we found that there were several turns of "virgin" fabric on the roll that had not been exposed to sun and weather. We took the awnings to an upholstery shop and I suggested the shop owner simply cut off about 20 inches of sun-exposed fabric and sew the plastic bead insert back into the virgin fabric. This left two-to-three turns of fabric on the roll which remains out of the sun and weather. It took the upholstery guy only 15 minutes to cut off the bad fabric and stitch the plastic bead back into the long edge of the fabric. I think this has been one of the cheapest repairs our old Beaver has had. It certainly beat the measuring and ordering, and especially the cost, of new awnings.