Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Donegal Tweed Houndstooth Irish Wool - Soaring Bluebird
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.
Beschreibung
Specifications:
Weight: Medium
GSM: 333
Composition: 70% Wool 30% Mohair
Width: 150cm / 59inch
Pattern repeat: 1.5cm / 0.5inch
Colour:
Bluebird is woven from a subtle multi-tonal Donegal yarn with soft, easy-on-the-eye natural tones reminiscent of the soaring chalk-faced cliffs of the southern coast of the UK. The addition of a heavenly multi-hued blue yarn is the colour of blue-tinged swallows soaring high in the sky. This creates a perfect combination, like Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover.
Medium-heavyweight, lightly basket-textured houndstooth that's stable and hardwearing with gentle bias ease yet malleable. Boasting this classic combination is as appropriate for modern fashions as it is for timeless pieces.
The heavier gauge yarns are woven in alternating double rows of soft stone/chalk grey and Bluebird yarns adding visual and textural definition to this superb houndstooth weave. Look closely and you'll find a sprinkling of Donegal flecks like pebbles upon the beach.
Properties:
This immaculately woven Irish Donegal Tweed Houndstooth is created from medium-heavy gauge lambswool yarns to produce a medium heavy-weight, lightly basket textured houndstooth fabric that's stable and hardwearing with gentle bias ease, yet malleable and boasting a heavy drape quality.
Lightly brushed for a soft and cosy finish, this overcoat and winter jacket/ separates weight fabric will keep the cold weather elements out and warm you up with natural and breathable warmth that can only be lambswool and mohair.
Garment Suggestions:
This classic chunky tweed style fabric is perfect for traditional country-style jackets, coats, and waistcoats like The Pattern Stash's Jemima Waistcoat. Add neat pencil skirts, smart pinafore dresses and classic shift dresses. Team up with Fair Isle knits, chunky wool tights, classic tan boots or the perfect pair of brogues and you will have the most versatile cosy and stylish A/W wardrobe staple.
Fabric is ideal for traditional country-style jackets, coats, and waistcoats like The Pattern Stash's Jemima Waistcoat. Add neat pencil skirts, smart pinafore dresses, and classic shift dresses. Team up with Fair Isle knits, chunky wool tights, classic tan boots, or the perfect pair of brogues, and you will have the most versatile, cosy, medium-heavy-weight, lightly basket-textured houndstooth fabric that's stable and hardwearing with gentle bias ease yet malleable and boast.
Classic British styling is a hot trend that will never date. For a softer feminine style team up with heritage wildflower prints in drapey feminine styles. Alternatively, look to the Classic French Couture styles with bespoke velvet and frayed edge trims - add pearl or metallic gold buttons to complete the look. This heavenly blue & grey stunner has a very '60s Mary Quant style.
Coats, peacoats, bomber jackets, worker jackets, shackets, gilets etc. will all look superb in this quality Irish woollen fabric.
Other Uses:
Hats, caps, bags and matching accessories are also perfect for reassuringly warm, throws and blankets, loose cushion covers and light-wear soft furnishings.
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
