No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 9:16^17.

Fine cloth is never out of fashion.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.1537.

And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   The doom of the billiard sharp. The Mikado, act 2.