Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Viscose Crepe - Retro Umbrella Flower
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 Drape)
GSM: 118
Composition: 100% Viscose
Width: 144cm / 56.6inch
Pattern repeat: 10.5cm / 4inch
Colour:
Retro Umbrella Flower is a cool, breathable, printed, 100% Viscose, lightweight dress crepe fabric perfect for warmer days and pretty retro styles that will easily take you into Autumn and beyond.
This elegant fabric has a vintage dusky pink-hued background, with a repeating banded design of stylised umbrella-like poppy flowers which feature a complimentary palette of cranberry red, raspberry pink, mellow ochre, gold and stems of olive green. The iconic black stamens add the final touch to this distinctive retro design.
Properties:
Boasting a fine, lightly-grained crepe texture that is so silky, with excellent width and lengthwise stability. Its superb light-medium fluid drapey handle and cool breathable feel make this lovely fabric perfect for Spring/Summer creations.
Equally effortless to wear into the colder months, simply layer with leggings, boots and a cosy cardigan or smart blazer, for year-round wear. The ochre tones add an autumnal vibe too!
Garment Suggestions:
Perfect for elegant shirts, blouses and tunics, as well as pretty tea dresses with softly gathered details, buffet dresses, cute playsuits, dresses, culottes, tunics, shirtdresses, jumpsuits, tulip skirts and so much more. This gorgeous lightweight fabric will make a host of both casual comfy makes as well as smarter & more sophisticated styles.
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
