Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Sweater Knit - Shimmering Cabernet
Only 14m of this product left in stock
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
Overview:
Shimmering Cabernet is a lightweight sweater knit that blends relaxed comfort with subtle glamour. Soft, fluid and easy to wear, this finely knitted fabric features delicate shimmering fibres that add quiet elegance, making it ideal for garments that feel cosy yet look effortlessly polished.
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 121
Composition: 100% Polyester
Width: 136cm / 53.5inch
Colour:
Shades: Shimmering Cabernet is a rich burgundy hue with warm brown undertones. Complementary shimmering fine fibres woven throughout the yarn create subtle detailing that feels dressy yet never brash, catching the light with understated elegance.
Design: A solid, all-over burgundy sweater knit with shimmering fibres running throughout.
Overall: Shimmering Cabernet is a superb fine sweater knit fabric, ideal for creating quick, slouchy sweaters, without the knitting. Lightweight and packable, it rolls easily, making it a perfect fabric to add to your holiday suitcase.
Properties:
Texture: Soft and cosy yet lightweight, this fabric has a super-smooth, lightly brushed surface feel that is gentle against the skin.
Handle: Knitted in classic stocking stitch, this clever polyester yarn is soft and malleable, producing a fabric with excellent width-wise retentive stretch and a slight ease lengthwise.
Drape: A fluid, soft, drapey lightweight handle makes this knitted marvel ideal for loose, longer and relaxed styles.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Utilise this fabric for lightweight yet comfortable and cosy knitted garments, such as sweaters, cardigans, cowl-necked, turtle-necked, and Dolman-sleeved tunics, or longline sweatshirts. The lightweight Shimmering Cabernet makes it ideal for layering with sleeveless tops, cardigans, shrugs, and loose tunics.
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
