Luxury 100% Wool Melonette - Sovereign Silhouette
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.
Overview:
Sovereign Silhouette is a luxurious 100% wool meltonette in a deep, commanding black. Mediumweight yet dense, it features an exceptionally smooth, soft finish with a supple, malleable handle that shapes beautifully. Its heavy yet fluid drape lends authority and elegance to coats, jackets, capes, and dramatic silhouettes. Durable and refined, it is also certified to UK fire safety standards, making it suitable for select furnishing projects.
Specifications:
Weight: Medium
GSM: 426
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 153cm / 60.2inch
Colour:
Shades: This luxurious 100% Wool Meltonette boasts a deep, commanding all-over black shade with a rich, uniform depth. A shade that never goes out of style, perfect for serious styles or as a base fabric for bright pops of colour.
Design: A solid, uninterrupted field that allows the fabric’s quality to take centre stage; its structure, weight, and fluid movement speak for themselves.
Overall: This fabric stands as a sovereign amongst textiles, powerful, composed, and impeccably refined. The black hue exudes aristocratic elegance and quiet authority, lending every creation a cultivated, commanding presence. The name, Sovereign Silhouette, speaks of its promise of poise, power, and timeless sophistication.
Properties:
Texture: This mediumweight wool melton has been expertly finished to achieve a surface that is exceptionally smooth and soft to the touch. Despite its substantial and dense weight, the cloth feels lighter than expected, refined and luxurious rather than rigid.
Handle: Remarkably malleable and supple for a fabric of this density, it responds beautifully to shaping and tailoring. The hand is confident yet supple, allowing structure without stiffness.
Drape: When used at length, this melton creates a luxuriously heavy yet uncharacteristically fluid drape. It falls with beautiful authority while retaining an elegant softness, making it ideal for dramatic, flowing silhouettes that still hold their form.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Perfect for statement outerwear and garments that demand presence. Ideal for full-length coats, tailored overcoats, capes, cloaks, opera coats, and dramatic winter dresses. It also lends itself beautifully to structured jackets, sculptural skirts, and minimalist silhouettes where fabric quality takes centre stage.
Historical costume makers and reenactors - this iconic fabric is perfect for durable period costumes!
Patterns: Consider patterns such as the Biker Jacket Cardi Pattern, the Brooklyn Coat, the Kyoto Vest, the Lyon Jacket, the Paynter Jacket, the Phoebe Coat, The Coat, The Blazer, the Yanaka Jacket, the Verona Jacket or the Ilford Jacket.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Create coordinated outfits and make yourself matching accessories; hats, caps, bags, brooches and scarves. Use the depth of the black as a blank canvas for bright applique, embroidery, or needle-felted scenes, and add pops of colour to your garments.
Furnishing: Light upholstery projects, scatter cushions, doorstops, draught excluders, insulating layers, place mats & liners
Upcycling: Make sure to use every scrap to craft decorative pieces for the home, seasonal decorations, bags, blankets & throws, plant pots & gardening accessories, needle-felting & appliqué, pet accessories, patchwork projects, and animal toys.
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!
