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Hope someone can help me?

Is it possible to buy just the material for a fleece? My grandad has a frame that is suitable (he thinks) but wherever I look, I seem to come across polyprop material with a wire or other such frame built in. They seem to cost around £20+ depending on size. You may have guessed that I have absolutley no knowledge of gardening but I want to help my grandad out. He can only get to the local garden centre but as suggested above, they only have the material and frame together. He's sure a cove can be purchased from somewhere. What about other alternatives? Maybe even household items that would save him even more?

Hope this isn't too daft a question. Please bear with my ignorance!

Thanks in advance, Peter.

Are you in the US or the UK? What is your grandfather trying to protect? In the UK garden centres sell horticultural fleece on rolls, but most people buy it to wrap round individual plants, not round a frame. More information, please.

Hi Janet,
Thanks for the reply. I am in the UK. I'm not sure what he's looking to protect, I'll have to ask him when I see him later in the week. I know that it's not one individual plant, more a bed over a square-ish area. I know this because he showed me the frame. Not sure where it came from but its a cube about 6 ft a 5ft and probably just over 1 ft tall. I'm guessing he uses tent pegs to hold it down.
I have to be careful about asking him as he may guess my intentions (i.e. poss xmas present). However, if there isn't anything I can buy to suit the frame then I might buy him one of those tubular frames which I'm sure you'll be familiar with. The problem of course there is that it won't suit the layout of the plants...so may be a waste of money/present.
Apologies for the vague description and lack of info. Are you able (Cluedo-like) to piece together what info I do have? As mentioned in my earlier post, if there's some common product he can use to lay over the frame then I know to concentrate my efforts on a different present all together.

Edit:
Looking through your post again Janet, I googled the roll you referred to. I notice that it always seems to be sold in a strip and some even as wide as 3m. So he could use this roll over the frame and cut it to length. Given that it's described as horticultural roll, would I be correct in assuming that it would be suitable regardless of what he's protecting?

Yes! But you'll have to think of how to fasten it to the frame. It might be best to drape it over and weight it down to the ground with bricks or stones for example, rather than making holes in it which could cause rips, especially in high winds.