Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Supersoft Lambswool Reversible Twill - Precious Metals (1.5m Panels)
Description
Specifications:
Weight: Medium / Light
GSM: 268
Composition: 100% Lambswool
Width: 160cm / 62.9inch
Pattern repeat: 1.52m / 59.8inch panels (including 2 x triple 4cm bands)
Colour:
These seriously soft lambswool twill panels are woven from a grounding palette of grey tones. A double-warp weave produces a multi-tonal and dual-sided fabric of silver grey featuring 2 blocks of horizontal 4cm bands in a darker pewter grey tone. Grey tones are extremely versatile and sit easily with most other colours and tones. Perfect for gifting to those whom you are unsure of their colour preferences.
Properties:
Precious Metals is a medium-lightweight lambswool fabric woven with seriously softly brushed, fine yarns woven in a double cloth construction which traps even more warmth and produces a hand that's Snuggle Soft, drapey and malleable too!
This is the perfect fabric for creating quick-make throws of the utmost quality, but should you choose to create stylish garments- it has a stable and easy-to-sew hand, perfect for coatigan styles.
Garment Suggestions:
Ruana style wraps and capes, ponchos, coatigans and waterfall front cardigans, shackets, overshirts and worker jackets. Make a feature of the stripes at hemlines and use the scraps for pockets etc.
Other Uses:
Create the easiest throws, hem, trim - whatever you choose and voila! the perfect gift. Also ideal for simple envelope-style cushions, wrap sew and add a couple of chunky buttons and they are good to go.
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
