Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Crinkle 100% Wool Plaid - Brandybuck Drift
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:
Brandybuck Drift is a characterful, medium-weight wool plaid designed for comfort, movement and relaxed style. With its softly rumpled surface and gently expressive colour palette, this fabric brings an easy, lived-in charm to garments that favour ease, warmth and understated heritage appeal.
Specifications:
Weight: Medium
GSM: 309
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 124cm / 48.8inch
Width pattern repeat: 12cm / 4.7inch
Length pattern repeat: 13cm / 5.1inch
Colour:
Shades: The rich conker-brown base of this fabric is layered with russet tones, intersected by vertical grass green bands and brushed kingfisher blue horizontals, with fine accents of golden bracken and kingfisher adding quiet detail. Warm, rustic and gently expressive, this plaid fabric captures a sense of quirky countryside comfort and understated heritage.
Design: Twill-woven plaid with a relaxed, slightly rumpled surface; unstructured, approachable and visually dynamic.
Overall: Brandybuck Drift is a medium-weight wool plaid designed for ease and movement, woven from a thoughtful mix of brushed and worsted yarns to create a softly rumpled, seersucker-like texture.
Properties:
Texture: Medium-weight wool with an interplay of brushed and worsted yarns. The subtle lustre of brushed over-checks combines with the structured body of worsted yarns. Differing yarn tension also creates a crinkly texture throughout
Handle: Differing yarn tensions give the cloth a relaxed, lived-in character, ideal for unstructured garments and effortless tailoring. Perfect for unstructured outerwear, textural play and designs where heritage meets contemporary styling.
Drape: Cosy, fluid and reassuring, with a gentle drape that moves naturally with the body while retaining enough structure for relaxed silhouettes.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Ideal for dresses, skirts, trousers, shirts, blouses, lightweight jackets, overshirts and relaxed tailoring. Equally suited to layering pieces and softly structured garments, this fabric pairs beautifully with clean, simple silhouettes that allow the colour and texture to shine. Use it for standout statement pieces or build it into a thoughtful capsule wardrobe for warmth, polish and longevity.
Patterns: We recommend patterns such as the Amelia Skirt, the Juno Trousers, the Cordelia Trousers and the Dawn Jeans
Other Uses:
Accessories: Ideal for coordinating accessories, including scarves, fabric belts, soft bags, hats, caps and scrunchies, adding cohesion and style to handmade wardrobes.
Upcycling: A brilliant scrap-saver, perfect for elbow patches, appliqué scenes or saving in your stash for rag-rugging and future creative projects.
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
