Fabworks Yorkshire Tweeds
Our Yorkshire Tweed fabrics are created by the same team of expert craftsmen that produce the Fabworks Heart of Huddersfield Collection. From yarn through to weaving and finishing, these beauties are made int' Yorkshire mills by Yorkshire folk!
Pure Cashmere Herringbone - Bilberry Heath (Ultra Soft)
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.
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Overview:
Bilberry Heath is a light-mediumweight, 100% cashmere herringbone that has an ultra soft hand, is stable, seriously soft and deliciously malleable, with a sumptuous smooth drape quality.
Specifications:
Weight: Light/Medium
GSM: 241
Composition: 100% Cashmere
Width: 144cm / 56.7inch
Width pattern repeat: 1.2cm / 0.5inch
Colour:
Overall: A fusion of dusty grey and bilberry red-brown in a classic herringbone tweed style, creating a subtle and muted blood red palette, that a mottled look thanks to the melanged grey yarns. A soft enough palette to wear as a grounding colour. The warm red notes will pair well with greys, burgundies and creams.
Shades: Smoky mottled grey warp with rich red-brown warp, that together create a soft blood red palette.
Design: A classic small scale herringbone, the burgundy weft showcasing the chevrons. The herringbone has a visual direction, so check the run before cutting and allow extra to match seams.
Properties:
Texture: Closely woven and stable, beautifully brushed for an ultra soft hand on both sides, with a subtle lustre and giving a very smooth, even surface with a soft velvety finish that invites touch.
Handle: The softest of soft with a superb, malleable hand. This is the kind of cashmere fabric that you just have to keep feeling. Stable and closely woven, it holds its shape as you cut and sew, making this fabric as rewarding to work with as it is to wear.
Drape: Featuring a sumptuously soft drape quality, this fine, light-mediumweight cashmere falls and moves with the body, so the check flows rather than sitting stiff and is ideal for anything that will show off the drape of this exquisite fabric.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Create typifying British heritage styles in this redolent palette, ideal for soft tailored blazers and trousers, jackets, waistcoats, skirts, lightweight coats and coatigans where the check can be matched across the seams. Equally suitable for unstructured styles such as luxury robes, wraps, ruanas, capes and ponchos, where the windowpane frames the whole piece. Allow extra fabric to match the check at the centre front, side seams and pockets.
Top tip! As with any brushed cloth, cut all pieces directionally to ensure the colour appears evenly throughout your garment and its brushed soft hand on both the face and reverse make it perfect for unlined styles.
Patterns:
- Pattern Stash - the perfect place to start
- Sewing Patterns for Midweight Wools
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Jacket & Coat Patterns
Other Uses:
Accessories: The windowpane check frames beautifully on smaller pieces too, try baker boy caps, scarves, stoles and bags with a heritage country feel. Team with a plain cashmere from this collection for contrast panels, collars and linings.
Furnishings: Luxury throws and cushion covers with a classic country house feel: hem or bind the edges and the check does the rest. A heritage gift of the utmost quality.
Upcycling: Make the most of every remnant and off-cut of this luxurious cashmere by reworking them into collar and cuff facings, covered buttons and pocket linings, as well as hand warmers.
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Try before you buy:
If you'd like to purchase a sample of this fabric, please use the selector above & select the option: Sample.
Fabworks Yorkshire Tweeds
Our Yorkshire Tweed fabrics are created by the same team of expert craftsmen that produce our exclusive HoH Collection. From yarn through to weaving and finishing, these beauties are made int' Yorkshire mills by Yorkshire folk!
Made in Yorkshire mills by Yorkshire folk! This is one of Fabworks’ famous Yorkshire-made pure wool fabrics, constructed using surplus yarns that have been recycled & repurposed to create limited runs of exquisite quality classic tweed styles. Locally manufactured within an 8-mile radius of Fabworks, UK-spun wool yarns sourced from across the country are put into weave at some of world’s most renowned tweed mills, located in Huddersfield (West Yorkshire, England, UK). The heritage and quality of these items represents classic British manufacturing, in the heart of The Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire, renowned for its expertise in wool textiles manufacture.
These are all bespoke one-off pieces that are only available at Fabworks, conjuring heritage, sentiment and locale into the curation of classy colour palettes with a colourful and eco-friendly sustainable twist.
Featuring a range of different weaves, weights and finishes, you will find herringbones, twills, tartans, block checks, birdseyes, jacquards, houndstooths & other special weaves. You may even spot some completely unique weaves in this collection, where along with our manufacturer, we have been able to create brand new & completely niche weave patterns. The weavers who produce these beautiful cloths are experts in their field, operating a small family-run setup, just like our Fabworks family, offering completely unique one-off limited runs.
Fabric: Delicious Delight Twill Melton - Candy Sapphire from The Heart of Huddersfield Delicious Delights Collection A/W 2025
All the Yorkshire Tweed fabrics are suitable for a range of practical purposes, from classic wool jackets & coats, to quirky skirts & home furnishings. With a minimum rub count (Martindale) of 20,000 these fabrics are equally serviceable for soft furnishing around the home either as tweed curtains, cushions or pouffes.
Did you know? Wool fabric has been used in garment manufacturing for generations, with the first recorded piece of woollen clothing produced over 10,000 years ago? These Yorkshire Tweeds are timeless classics, with their mediumweight allowing for exceptional versatility in both clothing, craft and light soft furnishings.
Fabric: Delicious Delight Twill Melton - Candy Sapphire from The Heart of Huddersfield Delicious Delights Collection A/W 2025
