Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Satin Backed Crepe - Spice Garden
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: Medium
GSM: 239
Composition: 100% Polyester
Width: 150cm / 59inch
Pattern repeat: 19cm / 7.4inch
Colour:
Spice Garden is a seriously first-rate dress crepe fabric with a smooth satin back. The classic Paisley style (Indian-inspired) design boasts a colour palette where dramatic black sits in the background and plays host to the scrolling Mendhi-like design of elegant flowers, leaves and buds.
A palette of silver grey and pastel turquoise forms the outlines and accents and is artfully enriched with henna / khaki green whilst fire orange and cool peach complete the ensemble.
Properties:
Dressmakers and fashionistas will appreciate the elegant design and sumptuously luxurious hand of this fabric. If you love fine-quality silk crepe but don’t want complicated and careful washing instructions, then this is the one for you!
Bring out your feminine side when wearing garments in this sumptuous satin-backed crepe. Spice Garden has a sophisticated medium/light weight with a heavy and sumptuous drape that is otherwise stable length-wise and has a slight ease on the width.
Boasting a smooth, cool-to-the-touch reverse, and a finely textured face, with a typical crepe fine-grain. These redeeming qualities make this a first-rate satin-backed crepe that is ideal for a plethora of stylish garments.
Garment Suggestions:
Fabrics with this beautiful drape and handle are just waiting to be transformed into show-stopping occasion-wear dresses. This fabric will show off feminine ruffles, fine pin tucks and pleats or dramatic drape details. Look to styles like the Sew Different Darjeeling Frock.
Super for dramatic dresses that require a sophisticated drape. Use it for palazzo or evening pants with a matching jacket tuxedo style (team up with black crepe) or duster style Sew Different Joti Duster Jacket.
1940s-style dresses will come together with Hollywood glamour when using this versatile fabric, as will 1970s styles and classic bow-tied blouses and dresses too.
Pattern suggestions:
- Butterick - BD 6363 Classic Bow-Tie Dress
- Butterick - 6682 '50s Halterneck Dress & Jacket
- Vogue Patterns - 9294 Misses dresses '40s
- Butterick - 6485 Misses dresses
Other Uses:
Create matching accessories, headbands, scarves and stoles and glamorous evening purses and bags with, ruched and pleated details.
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
