Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Devoré Style Wool Blend Felted Sweater Knit - Peacock Teal
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
Overview:
A richly coloured devoré-style sweater knit with artisan character, combining texture, depth and softness for sophisticated yet relaxed knitwear.
Specifications:
Weight: Light / Medium
GSM: 110
Composition: Wool & Polyacrylic
Width: 121cm / 47.6inch
Width pattern repeat: 24cm / 9.4inch
Length pattern repeat: 25cm /9.8inch
Colour:
Shades: This rich Devoré Style Felted Knit features a decadent Peacock Teal, blue/green palette. This sumptuous beauty will add a pop of jewel-like colour to any outfit, taking you through the seasons with ease.
Design: This sophisticated Avoca wool knit has a striking devoré effect, created by felting loose wool fibres onto a polyacrylic and wool-blend mesh base. The raised filigree floral design features scrolling foliage and damask-style flowers, giving the fabric visual depth and a tactile, artisanal finish.
Overall: A lacy knitted base paired with a raised, brushed felted wool damask-style design gives this fabric the appearance of traditional devoré. A refined and elegant choice for knitted garments with a couture-inspired feel.
Properties:
Texture: The combination of softly felted wool on the surface and polyacrylic yarns within the mesh base produces a texture that is cosy and tactile without feeling heavy or cloying.
Handle: Gentle retentive stretch lengthwise with natural knitted ease widthwise makes this luxury devoré-style knit ideal for comfortable, easy-wear garments.
Drape: Soft, malleable and reassuring, allowing garments to fall gracefully while maintaining structure where needed.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: A sophisticated choice for soft, unstructured garments such as cardigans, wraps, ponchos and loose tunics. It also works beautifully when paired with coordinating stretch velour or Ponte de Roma to create panelled sweatshirts, dresses or layered designs.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Make sure to save those scraps and make yourself some matching accessories, such as hair ties, scrunchies and headbands.
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
