upholstery material vs fabric

upholstery material and fabric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
upholstery material	Yes	No	No	No
fabric	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fabric is a hypernym of upholstery material; that is, fabric is a word with a broader meaning than upholstery material:

upholstery material: the fabric used in upholstering
fabric: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of upholstery material include cloth, material, textile.

upholstery material (noun)	fabric (noun)
the fabric used in upholstering	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
	the underlying structure