Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Jacquard Satin - Amazon Nights
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.
Description
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 130
Composition: 100% Polyester
Width: 152.4cm / 60inch
Pattern repeat: 32cm / 12.5inch
Colour:
Amazon Nights boasts a classic black hue like the depths of the Amazonian Rain Forest clothed in the mysteries of nightfall. black is always a classic especially when woven into a first-rate Jacquard with its light-reflecting tones.
Properties:
Finely woven from polyester yarns in a clever jacquard weave which combines areas of its floral and foliage design boasting a lightly textured twill and the background oozes style with its immaculate sateen weave, catching the light spectacularly. The contrast in texture creates lighter and darker tones detailing the Amazonian rainforest design of lush Monstera leaves, orchids and palms.
NB: jacquard woven fabrics generally have the design featured in a semi-matte weave and the background respectively features a silken sateen weave. Reversing the fabric will have the opposite effect.
Garment Suggestions:
Create a range of sophisticated occasion-wear apparel from classic shirts and blouses - to more dramatic styled- full-sleeved and bow-tied styles- extend this into full-skirted dresses- pleated, gathered and tiered or simply bias cut and gored below the waist. For something simpler and equally stylish, bias cut slip dresses with a nod to '90s styles or how about the classic LBD
Recreate the power-dressed styles of the '80s with dramatic shouldered shirt dresses and jumpsuits or two-piece suits with wide-legged and full-pleated front trousers and matching blazers. Team with matte black crepe and use Amazon Nights on the lapels for a classic Tuxedo-style Blazer.
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
