Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Wool & Silk Sharkskin - Golden Shimmer
Only 7m 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.
Order a sample of this fabric first to make sure it's exactly what you expect.
Description
Specifications:
Weight: Light
GSM: 84
Composition: Wool & Silk
Width: 142cm / 55.9inch
Width pattern repeat: 14cm / 5.5inch
Colour:
Shades: Golden Shimmer features a beautiful, natural wheaten-gold hue, warm and understated, allowing the fabric’s structure and fibre blend to take centre stage.
Design: An impeccably woven sharkskin construction in a solid hue. The fine weave resembles tiny, diagonal repeating steps or points, akin to the textured surface of sharkskin, creating quiet visual movement and depth.
Overall: A luxury fabric created from the finest wool and silk yarns in a naturally luminous wheaten gold. Ideal for historical costumiers, haute couture, and timeless occasions or bridal wear, this cloth offers elegance without excess and beauty that endures.
Properties:
Texture: Golden Shimmer may have a contradictory name, but there’s no cause for alarm. This masterfully woven sharkskin fabric boasts a silky-soft texture comparable to a fine pashmina wrap, with a subtle shimmering lustre that reflects the presence of silk rather than overt shine.
Handle: Golden Shimmer features excellent stability both width and lengthwise, with a natural bias ease that contributes to ease of handling, precise tailoring and refined garment construction.
Drape: This fabric produces a deliciously silken, fluid and swishy drape, moving beautifully with the wearer.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Perfect for historical costumiers, haute couture, and timeless occasion or bridal wear, especially garments that require a natural fibre composition, soft natural hue and elegant drape. Alternatively, create simple tunic-style overshirts with clean lines, sharp details, side vents and neat collars for a modern, understated interpretation.
Patterns: There are many other patterns suitable for this versatile cross-seasonal fabric. We recommend the Cordelia Trousers, the Shepherd Skirt and the Juno Trousers.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Perfect for creating matching accessories, including caps, soft-structured bags, clutches and fabric belts.
Furnishings: Suitable for refined home accents such as cushion covers, upholstered panels or decorative trims where subtle texture and depth are desired.
Upcycling: Excellent for smaller projects and offcuts, including patchwork, contrast panels, appliqué and rag-rugging.
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
