100% Wool Melton - Wessenden Blue
Only 14.5m of this product left in stock
Price is per HALF metre. 1 unit = 0.5metres. For 1.5metres, add 3 units.
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Overview:
Wessenden Blue is 100% wool, a medium to heavyweight Melton in a sapphire-leaning blue teal. Part of our Yorkshire reservoir collection, it is felted and naturally water-repellent, and suits structured coats, jackets and capes.
If you love Wessenden Blue, you'll love its sisters: Scammonden Teal, Rivelin Dawn, Royal Ramsden, Semerwater Blue, Yateholme Teal, Spotbrough Flash, Leighton Blue, Fewston Blue, Thruscross Storm, Grimwith Deep, Digley Deep Teal and Gorple Navy.
Specifications:
Weight: Medium / Heavy
GSM: 497
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 158cm / 62.2inch
Colour:
Overall: A sapphire-leaning blue teal, composed on the surface and immense beneath.
Shades: Saturated with jewel-blue undertones, richer and cooler than teal, its depth leaning toward sapphire rather than green. Within its solidity lives a restrained glow, like the faint sheen seen where deep water holds compressed light. This blue feels as though it has been drawn from the centre of a dammed lake, where water darkens under its own weight. The jewel quality emerges subtly, not as brilliance but as concentration: blue intensified by containment, surfacing only as a low, polished radiance.
Design: Twill woven, but the twill diagonals are not visible due to the brushed, felted finish.
Properties:
Texture: Closely woven, felted and lightly brushed, with a traditional wool feel and a cosy finish. Both sides have the felted surface, making them naturally water-repellent. Please note that the nap may be prone to pilling after frequent wear.
Handle: Stable both width and lengthways with a firm handle, and little fraying on the cut edges - a fabric that will do as it's told.
Drape: Hangs reassuringly, with enough weight and body for structured outerwear; this fabric will keep the elements out.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Classic outerwear and hard-wearing separates: start with simple gilets, waistcoats or wrap skirts for a quick make, then move on to jackets, coats and capes, from classic pea coats and duffle coats to oversized statement coats. Shackets made up in this cloth team perfectly with country tweeds and staple denim. Historical costume makers and reenactors will find it ideal for period costume.
Patterns: Browse our Sewing Patterns for Heavy Wools & Coatings for coats and jackets, or our Sewing Patterns for Midweight Wools for waistcoats, skirts and pinafores, and our own Pattern Stash designs: try the Jemima Waistcoat and the Amelia Skirt for the perfect place to start.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Complete your outfits with matching accessories: hats, caps, neck warmers, mittens and wrist-warmers.
Furnishings: If clothes-making isn't your forte, this cloth is excellent for upholstery and soft furnishing projects such as rustic seat pads, boxed cushions and footstools. It is ideal for blankets and throws too.
Upcycling: Offcuts make an ideal base for 2D needle-felted projects such as bags, cushions and wall hangings, or personalise them with appliqué and team with your Yorkshire Tweed offcuts for a wonderful combination.
B&B
This fabric has been sourced as surplus deadstock from a small UK womenswear brand that specialises in producing vintage styles influenced by classic 20th century clothing pieces. Mainly 1920s to 1980s, featuring a variety of glam styles. With fabrics originally supplied by British manufacturers where possible.
