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Irish 100% Lambswool Tweed - Summer Song Herringbone Check
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.
Descripción
Weight: Medium
GSM: 263
Composition: 100% Lambswool
Width: 154cm / 60.6inch
Pattern repeat: 27cm / 10.6inch
The beautiful Avoca Weaver's Summer Song is the most wonderfully bright and happy fabric you could wish to see. Colour addicts rejoice! You'll never tire of looking in happy wonderment at this beautiful fabric!
Woven expertly by the Avoca Weavers in Ireland, soft 100% lambswool fabric with a strong and hard-wearing weave that also boasts a stable yet drapey medium weight handle. This truly complimentary palette of colour features turquoise, azure, French navy, fresh natural white, and sunny sunflower yellow. Like taking a stroll on a beautiful coastal path; the deep blue sea below you and fresh blue skies above, with white billowing clouds sitting over the sunflower fields.
Making outerwear pieces using this Herringbone Check, you’re sure to brighten any dull day and will be reminded of those glorious summer days too!
Garments such as capes, coats and ponchos & wraps are a great starting point. When you become more accustomed to its luxurious colour palette you'll be ready to make accessories to match. An excellent all-wool check that's perfect for bag, hat and cap making.
Craft projects will look sublime and help brighten up dreary interiors too! Summer Song will make for an uplifting bright interiors theme, imagine a child’s bedroom featuring this colourful check with a seaside theme.
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
