Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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100% Wool Worsted Herringbone - Golden Harvest
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.
Description
Overview:
This beautifully balanced wool worsted herringbone is a refined wardrobe staple, combining classic tailoring appeal with everyday wearability. Light yet reassuringly warm, it offers softness, structure and versatility in equal measure, making it an excellent choice for polished garments designed to layer and last.
Specifications:
Weight: Light / Medium
GSM: 192
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 162cm / 63.7inch
Pattern repeat: 2cm / 0.8inch
Colour:
Shades: This impeccably woven Wool Worsted Herringbone boasts a natural, gentle golden hue akin to sun-ripened wheat. Calm and grounding, this versatile shade pairs beautifully with earthy greens, browns and rusts, or with classic neutrals such as cream, beige and taupe.
Design: Classic fine herringbone with elegant 2cm-wide chevrons, offering subtle texture and timeless tailoring appeal.
Overall: Simply stylish and endlessly useful, this solid-hued, all-wool worsted herringbone is a reliable medium-weight fabric that works beautifully on its own or alongside patterned wool fabrics for thoughtful, layered designs.
Properties:
Texture: Seriously soft and brushed on both sides, delivering a soothing, comforting feel against the skin.
Handle: Stable in both width and length with a natural bias ease, making it easy, forgiving and satisfying to work with.
Drape: Soft and cosy drape with a light-to-medium weight that feels warm without bulk, ideal for garments that need movement with structure.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Ideal for uplifting wardrobe staples that combine practicality with personality. Think tailored jackets, suits, trousers, skirts, waistcoats and dresses that celebrate refined colour while retaining polish and versatility.
Patterns: We love this fabric for patterns such as the Cordelia Trousers, the Ilford Jacket, the Amelia Skirt, the Coat, and other classic tailoring designs.
Other Uses:
Accessories: An excellent choice for smart, structured accessories, including bags, laptop sleeves, caps, belts and formal hats. Understated yet refined, it’s a fabric worth showing off.
Furnishings: While primarily a garment fabric, it also works beautifully for tailored home accents such as cushion covers, draught excluders or decorative panels where a subtle, natural tone is desired.
Upcycling: Perfect for smaller projects and offcuts, ideal for appliqué, patchwork, contrast panels, fabric trays or soft furnishings that benefit from structure, warmth and longevity.
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
