Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Supersoft Irish Heritage Merino Tweed Twill - Ocean Blue
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 / Medium
GSM: 243
Composition: 100% Merino Wool
Width: 150cm / 59inch
Colour:
Ocean Blue is a rich denim/ocean blue melange hue. This pleasingly versatile subtle melange of mid-blue tones has a soft tweedy style. Perfect to team with your favourite jeans or equally smart for classic tweedy suits.
Properties:
A sublimely sartorial, soft 100% Merino twill woven with the characteristic diagonal lines of the twill weave appearing 2mm apart. This versatile medium-weight wool tweed with a cosy brushed feel has a malleable drapey medium-heavy weight handle; stable lengthwise and with a natural widthwise ease.
Perfect for a host of tailoring and dressmaking purposes as well as soft furnishings and crafts too!
Garment Suggestions:
Ocean Blu will look stunning made up into coats, capes, jackets, The Avid Seamstress Blazer, neat pencil style skirts, Pattern Stash Amelia or gently flared and A' line style skirts, pinafore dresses and waistcoats. A fab woollen that's ideal for historical costume makers too. The fabric's subtle lustre will look amazing showcased in a dramatic coat style with a full skirt, that'll also keep you warm and dry too.
Other Uses:
Try bag making, hats and other crafty projects too!
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
