Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Shimmering Sweater Knit - Raspberry & Cabernet Stripe
Only 14m of this product left in stock
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.
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Descrizione
Overview:
Shimmering Cabernet is a fine, lightweight sweater knit that combines comfort with subtle glamour, perfect for relaxed garments with a polished finish.
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 113
Composition: 100% Polyester
Width: 135cm / 53.1inch
Length pattern repeat: 2.5cm / 0.9inch
Colours:
Shades: Raspberry & Cabernet Shimmering Stripe combines the rich burgundy hue of Cabernet wine, complete with subtle brown undertones, with shimmering fine fibres and complementary magenta-raspberry pink. The result is a jaunty, eye-catching stripe that feels dressy yet never brash.
Design: A fine sweater knit worked in classic stocking stitch, featuring 1.7cm wide horizontal stripes in burgundy and magenta-raspberry tones, subtly enhanced with shimmering fibres for added depth and interest.
Overall: Shimmering Cabernet is a superb, fine sweater knit fabric that is ideal for creating quick slouchy sweaters, and the best thing is, you don't have to do the knitting! A bonus is that you can roll it up, making it an easy item to add to your holiday suitcase!
Properties:
Texture: Soft, cosy yet lightweight and highly malleable, with a smooth surface feel that’s comfortable against the skin.
Handle: Knitted in classic stocking stitch, this clever polyester yarn produces excellent width-wise retentive stretch with a gentle ease lengthwise, ensuring comfort and ease of wear.
Drape: Fluid, soft and drapey, giving relaxed silhouettes an easy, flattering flow.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Ideal for lightweight yet comfortable knitted garments such as sweaters, cardigans, cowl-necked, turtlenecked and Dolman-sleeved tunics, or longline sweatshirts. Its light weight makes it particularly well-suited to layering pieces, including sleeveless tops, shrugs, loose tunics and casual cardigans.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Be sure to save your scraps to create matching accessories such as hair ties, scrunchies and headbands for coordinated finishing touches.
Furnishings: Suitable for soft furnishings such as decorative cushion covers, throws or relaxed bedroom accents, where drape and comfort are key rather than structure.
Upcycling: An excellent choice for upcycling projects, use offcuts for contrast panels, trims, colour-blocked details or patchwork-style creations.
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
