Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Cosy Boucle Knit Irish Wool - Great Gansey
Price is per HALF metre. 1 unit = 0.5metres. For 1.5metres, add 3 units.
All cut length orders are sent as one continuous length.
Order a sample of this fabric first to make sure it's exactly what you expect.
Beskrivelse
Specifications:
Weight: Medium
GSM: 352
Composition: Wool & Acrylic (Minimal)
Width: 152.4cm / 60inch
Colour:
This cosy knitted woollen is created with a clever boucle yarn that has a fine black acrylic yarn at its base. All wool fibres with a super-cosy boucle curl are then added to the yarn in a sea-faring palette of pleasing denim blue tones, the colour of the ever-changing blue seas and sky. Fishermen have traditionally worn knitted jumpers/sweaters called Gansey's created in unique patterns each distinctive to their area of coastline and often knitted in glorious tones of blue.
Properties:
Great Gansey is knitted in a classic stocking stitch which produces a closely compacted base and reverse. The tiny chevrons of the stocking stitch can be seen on the reverse and display all the colours of the yarn.
The chunky boucle fibres of denim blue wool, present themselves as rows of closely arranged curls, or like waves upon a choppy sea. This knitted fabric is a super warm and cosy fabric with good natural knitted ease, malleable and will drape reassuringly at length.
Garment Suggestions:
Perfect for creating jackets, jumpers, funnel necks and coatigans that you can pick up and throw on! Garments in Great Gansey will become your go-to autumn/winter favourites. Other great garment choices are kangaroo pocket pop-over tops, cosy sweatshirt styles, shawl collar cardigans, capes, wraps and ponchos, as well as snoods, hats, beanies and super cosy scarves.
Other Uses:
We've noticed a trend for hand-knitted homewares. Don't be limited to creating clothes; use this superior-quality knitted woollen as throws, bedspreads, and cushions. Cut to size, tidy up the edges, and it's ready!
Sourced As Deadstock:
This fabric is from the Fabworks x Avoca collaboration for A/W 2024, that features a collection of deadstock luxury dressmaking fabrics & trimmings.
Delivered to Fabworks straight from the Avoca garment makers, this fabric has very limited stock availability and cannot be repeated once sold out. If you've spotted something you like, don't leave it too long before ordering!
Fabworks x Avoca
Fabworks’ association with Avoca began in 2011, when Fabworks Mill Shop was only a fraction of what it is today, and way before Fabworks Online existed. We were approached by Avoca with an offer to buy their surplus fabric from the previous seasons' collections. What an opportunity! A deal was struck, and what arrived at our warehouse a few weeks later was the most amazing selection of Irish-made pure wool fabrics, plus all the accessorising elements within the Avoca ladieswear collection (elaborate trimmings, gorgeous embroidered silks, lightweight satins, Liberty jerseys) and the cherry on top of the cake – Irish-made Donegal Tweed!
The working relationship between Fabworks and Avoca blossomed over the next few years and allowed Fabworks to develop its focus on high end ladies’ dressmaking fabrics and away from the lower end of the textiles market.
Four years and several thousand metres of fabric later, Fabworks took a bigger step than ever before, and collaborated with Avoca to commission its own range of Irish-made pure wool fabrics which marked the launch of Fabworks Online, November 16th 2015. This was a defining moment for Fabworks, being the very first collection of fabrics that we commissioned ourselves. With a range of herringbones in iconic Avoca colour-rich palettes, this was Fabworks’ first taste of proper manufacturing in the 21st century.
Find out more & read our blog article announcing the return of the Fabworks x Avoca collaboration & see behind-the-scenes of our visit to Ireland in summer 2024
