Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Devoré Style Wool Blend Sweater Knit - Secret Acanthus Trellis
Only 8m 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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Description
Overview:
Secret Acanthus Trellis is a light, delicately textured sweater knit that blends softness with quiet artistry. Featuring a devoré-style felted design on a fine lace-knit base, this elegant fabric offers subtle patterning, gentle stretch and a beautifully wearable drape, perfect for garments that feel refined, comfortable and thoughtfully detailed.
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 107
Composition: Wool, Acrylic & Elastane
Width: 126cm / 49.6inch
Width pattern repeat: 8.5cm / 3.3inch
Length pattern repeat: 13.4cm / 5.2inch
Colour:
Shades: A palette of soft, subtle, almost faded pink-mauve hues features throughout this clever devoré-style felted knit. The muted tones evoke the appearance of an artisan-dyed textile, offering understated depth and vintage charm.
Design: Secret Acanthus Trellis is a subtly textured fine lace knit, felted in a devoré-style finish, featuring a beautifully jacquard-knitted design of florals and foliage arranged in a scrolling trellis. Inspired by Arts and Crafts motifs reminiscent of William Morris’ Acanthus, the pattern becomes visible when held to the light, adding quiet visual intrigue.
Overall: A lacy knitted base combined with a raised, softly brushed felted wool damask-style design gives this fabric its distinctive devoré appearance. Sophisticated and expressive, it is a refined choice for elegant knitted garments with a decorative edge.
Properties:
Texture: Soft, cosy and comfortable, with gentle surface contrast between the lace knit and felted motifs.
Handle: This finely knitted, devoré-effect lace sweater knit fabric features approximately 20–30% four-way stretch, allowing ease of movement and relaxed wearability.
Drape: A soft, malleable and elegant drape is easily achieved, making this fabric ideal for fluid, gently skimming silhouettes.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Utilise this fabric for lightweight yet comfortable and cosy knitted garments, such as sweaters, cardigans, cowl-necked, turtlenecked, and Dolman-sleeved tunics, or longline sweatshirts. The lightweight makes it ideal for layering clothes such as sleeveless tops, cardigans, shrugs and loose tunics.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Make sure to save those scraps and make yourself some matching accessories, such as hair ties, scrunchies and headbands.
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
