Classic Coffee Bean - Stretch Suiting
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.
Specification
Weight: Light
GSM: 114
Composition: Wool & Elastane (% unknown)
Width: 124cm / 48.8inch
Pattern repeat: N/A
Introduction:
This no-frills wool suiting fabric with added elastane is ideal for those who love the rich autumnal tones of nature, read on for more style and pattern suggestions, hints and tips.
Colour:
Classic Coffee Bean boasts a rich, dark brown hue, the colour of freshly roasted coffee beans or a finely brewed 'pick-me-up' cuppa.
Properties:
Classic Coffee Bean is a fine wool suiting boasting a matte finish and a flat weave. This excellent wool suiting is expertly woven from fine yarns but is not as lightweight as some superfine worsteds and has a light texture, almost crepe-like.
Featuring a stable handle and comfortable ease across the width. A superb and reassuring drape quality makes it perfect for a plethora of dressmaking projects!
Coffee Bean is ideal for understated elegant attire, after all... brown is a rich and grounding tone, and suiting is not just for suits.
Put this fabulous worsted to use for super-smart work attire, wide-legged Katherine Hepburn style trousers, culottes and classic pleat-fronted trousers. The Pattern Stash - Cordelia Trousers are just perfect for worsted fabrics. Create key pieces like feminine pencil skirts The Pattern Stash - Amelia Skirt, dresses and fit & flare dresses, items with timeless style. Team with autumnal checked worsteds to add interest.
Utilise the excellent drape quality and add feminine ruffle details to your skirts and dresses; peplums and fishtail hemlines - are perfect details for '50s style wiggle dresses. Neat shift dresses and pinafores will become key workwear pieces made in this super comfy flawless Classic Coffee Bean fabric.
The Merchant & Mills Shirt Dress and Trapeze Dress will look stunning in this fabric. There's also a simple drawstring-waist trouser pattern too The 101 Trouser, which will work perfectly with this.
London CMT Collection
This fabric has been sourced from a top Cut, Make & Trim dressmaking company in London UK, known for garment construction for some of the worlds most prestigious and well-known fashion brands, and many household couture names. Top quality brands equals top quality fabrics. Once a year Fabworks is afforded the opportunity to buy any remaining short lengths of these high-end, high-fashion designer fabrics which would otherwise be discarded as they are at the end of their intended usage.
Fabworks presents you with these luxurious high-fashion fabrics perfect for dressmaking to create your bespoke, extra special garments. Sourcing and rescuing fabrics from high-end makers of the fashion industries such as this company is the true nature of surplus, deadstock fabrics, once they have sold out they cannot be restocked. Grab these beauties whist you can!
