Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Printed Wool Blend Sweater Knit - Twilight Teal Blooms
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
Overview:
Moonlit Teal Floral Sweater Knit is a light, cosy knit designed for effortless comfort and everyday ease. Soft, stretchy and beautifully fluid, this snug sweater knit combines practicality with a quietly expressive floral design, perfect for relaxed garments that feel comforting, wearable and stylish without fuss.
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 183
Composition: Wool, Polyester, Acrylic & Elastane
Width: 144cm / 56.6inch
Width pattern repeat: 82cm / 32.2inch
Length pattern repeat: 40.5cm / 15.9inch
Colour:
Shades: A deep Twilight Teal forms the background of this snug sweater knit fabric, hosting coordinating lighter teal-sage floral motifs that appear softly illuminated, as if caught in moonlight. The tonal palette is calm and harmonious, offering visual interest without overpowering the design.
Design: A fine stocking stitch sweater knit, printed with a simplified floral design of flowers and foliage, maintaining clarity while allowing the knit structure to remain soft and fluid.
Overall: A superb fine sweater knit fabric, ideal for creating quick, slouchy sweaters, without the knitting. Lightweight yet cosy, it rolls neatly for packing, making it an excellent travel companion. Soft, snug and reassuringly comfortable, this fabric balances ease, warmth and gentle femininity.
Properties:
Texture: Soft and cosy, featuring a fine, close-knit structure with a lightly brushed finish that enhances comfort against the skin.
Handle: This super sweater knit possesses excellent retentive four-way stretch, allowing garments to move freely while maintaining shape and comfort.
Drape: Bouncy, fluid and highly malleable, creating relaxed silhouettes that skim the body and feel easy to wear.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Put this fabric to use for comfy and cosy knitted garments such as sweaters, cardigans, cowl-necked, turtle-necked or Dolman-sleeved, even lounge style pants too, as well as slash-necked tunics or long line sweater dresses. The lightweight makes it ideal for layering garments such as 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
