Avoca Luxury Deadstock Fabric
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Worsted 100% Wool Twill - Ross Hunting Ancient Tartan
Only 9m 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.
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Description
Overview:
Ross Hunting Ancient Tartan is a striking, light-to-medium-weight all-wool fabric that celebrates Highland heritage through vivid colour and traditional craftsmanship. Defined by its vibrant green base and bold orange overchecks, this classic tartan is ideal for garments and projects that honour clan history with confidence, character and enduring style.
Specifications:
Weight: Medium
GSM: 235
Composition: 100% Wool
Width: 144cm / 56.7inch
Width pattern repeat: 21.5cm / 8.5inch
Length pattern repeat: 18.5 cm / 7.3inch
Colour:
Shades: This all-wool tartan boasts rich, deep and verdant greens, grounded with black and brought to life with bold accents of lime green and vibrant orange overchecks. The palette is confident and expressive, combining traditional Highland tones with energetic contrast for a powerful visual impact.
Design: Traditionally twill-woven, in keeping with classic worsted tartans, offering crisp definition and enduring structure.
Overall: Ross Hunting Ancient Tartan is a vibrant green-based tartan with orange overchecks, symbolising the clan’s deep connection to nature and their homeland. A powerful representation of Clan Ross’s enduring spirit and heritage, it is perfect for those who wish to honour their roots with pride, whether for formal occasions or everyday wear.
Properties:
Texture: A closely woven, all-wool worsted fabric with a versatile medium weight. It offers the look and character of traditional wool while being softer and more comfortable against the skin.
Handle: A stable, closely woven fabric that is hard-wearing and made to last, perfect for structured pleats and tailored details.
Drape: In addition to holding crisp details, this fabric drapes with a reassuring weight, ideal for bias cuts, flares and flounced designs. The tartan sett can be cleverly used to create striking focal points in bespoke garments and creative pieces.
Garment Suggestions:
Types: Create a wide range of apparel, from classic separates, trousers, skirts, pinafore dresses, tunics and blazers, to stand-alone pieces ranging from ballgowns to everyday utilitarian styles with a heritage twist. Naturally, it is also perfect for traditional Scottish attire such as kilts, scarves and ties.
All lovers of textiles will find countless uses for this first-rate Yorkshire tartan, carrying you through autumn and winter, and perfectly into spring.
Patterns: Consider patterns such as the Cordelia Trousers, the Rambler Pants, the Lynsey Dungarees for trousers and dungarees or the Amelia Skirt and The Blazer.
Other Uses:
Accessories: Complete your outfits with matching accessories, think ties, scrunchies and matching handbags. We love The Frame Bag pattern!
Furnishings: Perfect for a tweedy highlands scheme, create cosy soft furnishings such as cushion covers, boxed-edge seat pads, blind trims and draught excluders or use to upholster and upcycle furniture.
Upcycling: Ideal for scrap-friendly projects like appliqué, patchwork or textile art. Offcuts can be transformed into contrast panels for garments, or used to create characterful soft furnishings, think fabric trays, coasters, or classic pieces like Scottie dogs, teddy bears and dachshund draught excluders.
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
