Cool Ecru - Showerproof Viscose
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: 100% Viscose (with light proofing treatment)
Width: 144cm / 56.6inch
Pattern repeat: N/A
Introduction:
Calling all sportswear and accessories designers and fanatics! This first-rate fashion-led ecru showerproof cotton is just the ticket for creating all those retro sports fashion styles and accessories which are making a comeback!
Colour:
Light, fresh and crisp ecru (or cream)! Perfect for those who love neutral hues. Make a statement in this classic tone.
Properties:
Cool Ecru is lightweight but strong and stable, with a wonderfully malleable drape quality that is easy to wear, windproof and lightly showerproof. Water forms beads and rolls off when tested. It will form full pleats and gathers, perfect for creating voluminous costumes and carnival wear/cosplay.
Garment Suggestions:
Now all you have to do is decide what to make. Sports Luxe fashions are big business as pop stars and movie stars promote the high fashion brands. Create your own Sports Luxe styles and use Cool Ecru to make, hoodies, pack down - quilted jackets, bomber jackets and crop tops. Combine with coloured similar weight, sports fabrics to add retro chevron stripe details to your makes or add woven nylon striped tapes to side seams and back yokes for that Italian designer flair.
Other Uses:
This hard-wearing Cool Ecru will also make excellent shopping & tote bags and matching quilted- sports-style accessories. Alternatively, it will make excellent shower curtains and showerproof aprons and coveralls.
This fabric is lightly showerproof.
Please conduct your own wash tests on some scrap fabric - we cannot be held responsible for the fabric once in the possession of the customer. This fabric was tested with a light shower of water. For extra shower proofing you may need to use waterproof tape on the seams.
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!
