100% Wool Heavy Melton - Eclipse Black
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.
Specifications:
Weight: Very Heavy
GSM: 713
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 152cm / 59.8inch
Introduction:
This cloth was saved from a West Yorkshire woollen manufacturer, where it would otherwise have been destroyed. Rescuing good cloth from waste is what Fabworks is for. This roll came through the salvage in perfect condition with no fault, so it is offered at its full price.
Colour:
Woven with 100% wool yarns in classic black, this is a winter staple with a classic look and feel, and the ideal fail safe coating cloth.
Properties:
A reassuringly warming woollen, built to beat the winter chills and the fuel bills.
This heavyweight, closely woven fabric, with a densely felted wool, blanket like hand and subtle lustre, is perfect for protecting against the elements. Stable and extremely hard wearing, wool Melton naturally repels water to keep you dry and warm. With a heavy weight and accompanying drape quality, it feels like a protective hug. Envelope yourself in this warming woollen and escape the chills.
Note that the nap of a Melton may be prone to pilling in wear.
Garment Suggestions:
Traditional overcoats or duffle styles are of course the perfect garment to make from this sturdy fabric, and the blank canvas of solid black allows plenty of room for creative freedom, letting you embellish with folk style blanket stitch embroidery or needle felting, akin to Austrian folk styles. Get creative and add embroidered trims for instant results and a unique style to be proud of.
This heavy fabric is also ideal for military style pea coats and donkey jacket styles with leather or PU yokes. Team your garments up with aged leather or oilcloth for a superb combination.
Hard wearing shacket jackets made up in Eclipse Black will team perfectly with dark country tweeds as well as your staple denim pieces.
Historical costume makers and reenactors, this iconic fabric is perfect for a profusion of hard wearing costumes.
Start with our sewing patterns for heavy wools and coatings, or browse The Pattern Stash, our own pattern range.
Line your coat with one of our Jewel jacquard lining collection fabrics.
Other Uses:
If clothes making isn't your forte, this cloth is excellent for upholstery and soft furnishing projects such as rustic seat pads, boxed cushions and footstools. You could also appliqué with checked country tweeds and leathers for a very rural, gentlemen's club vibe. Combine with red and cream woollens for a rustic Austrian Tyrol interiors scheme.
Hard wearing and stable, it is ideal for bag making and craft projects too.
Benefits of sewing with Wool! 🐑
We love wonderful wool! Why? Because it looks beautiful, well yes but did you know wool has a series of superpowers that make it the most incredible natural fibre, suitable for more garment suggestions and sewing inspiration than possibly any other?
Wool has a unique naturally crimped 3D structure which attributes to some brilliant properties & makes it a great fabric to wear throughout all the seasons.
Naturally Breathable: This amazing 3D crimped structure promotes air circulation allowing air to pass through the fabric, allowing for circulation and ventilation for your skin to breathe, keeping you cool.
Shower Resistant: Sheep naturally produce a waxy substance called lanolin. As sheep live outdoors, this naturally occurring wax helps to protect sheep from the elements, naturally shedding water & keeping them dry. This same property is retained within the wool fibres when spun into yarn.
Moisture Absorbing: The moisture-retentive superpowers of wool! It’s hydrophilic core gives wool the ability to wick away moisture keeping you dry and comfortable – this possibly one of our favourite properties because you can stay fresh when wearing wool, from autumn right through to spring!
