Night Watch Tartan - Wool Worsted
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.
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 167
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 156cm / 61.4inch
Pattern repeat: 5.2cm / 2inch
Introduction:
A pleasing palette of dark and mysterious blue-green hues abound in this Black Watch style worsted tartan fabric.
Colour:
Night Watch Tartan - Wool Worsted is woven from a combination of the finest wool worsted fibres where the darkest navy sits confidently in the background and plays host to a super-smart overcheck of spruce green and rich teal sitting side by side. The finest detail of french navy adds the final flourish to this classic plaid/tartan, suit weight fabric.
Properties:
Night Watch is closely woven producing a stable hand and elegant sartorial drape. Suiting fabrics are definitely not just for suits, and tartan, plaids and checks are classics. Create iconic British designer styles with icons such as Viv Westwood and Alexander McQueen as your inspiration or choose lifelong country classic styles.
Garment Suggestions:
Neat blazers and matching skirts, (pencil, pleated or A-line). Trouser lovers make sharp cigar-style trousers or glamorous wide-legged trousers with a retro style. The Pattern Stash's Cordelia Trousers are ideal, add deep turn-ups for a swishy weighted drape quality. Cinch in your waist with a matching closely fitted Jemima Waistcoat for bombshell glamour and a forever outfit with class!
Expand the vintage glamourpuss vibe and create waist-cinching wiggle dresses with tummy flattering pleats over the hips- alternately add peplums and fantail pleats in the back seam. Look to style icons such as Dita Von Teese for inspiration, Charm Patterns have an excellent range of retro-style patterns.
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Benefits of sewing with Wool! 🐑
We love wonderful wool! Why? Because it looks beautiful, well yes but did you know wool has a series of superpowers that make it the most incredible natural fibre, suitable for more garment suggestions and sewing inspiration than possibly any other?
Wool has a unique naturally crimped 3D structure which attributes to some brilliant properties & makes it a great fabric to wear throughout all the seasons.
Naturally Breathable: This amazing 3D crimped structure promotes air circulation allowing air to pass through the fabric, allowing for circulation and ventilation for your skin to breathe, keeping you cool.
Shower Resistant: Sheep naturally produce a waxy substance called lanolin. As sheep live outdoors, this naturally occurring wax helps to protect sheep from the elements, naturally shedding water & keeping them dry. This same property is retained within the wool fibres when spun into yarn.
Moisture Absorbing: The moisture-retentive superpowers of wool! It’s hydrophilic core gives wool the ability to wick away moisture keeping you dry and comfortable – this possibly one of our favourite properties because you can stay fresh when wearing wool, from autumn right through to spring!
