Checks

[frualeydis]

This is a coat I would not mind having:



But where on earth would one find that kind of checked coat weight wool today?

Comments

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Scotland? :D

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

Weave it yourself? :-)

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

We're funny, aren't we! Hahaha.

[ermingard.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's checked fabric? Couldn't the same look be created with ribbons on plain fabric?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Nope, not 100% sure, it's a fashion drawing, but I think it is the likeliest case. Ribbons on a woollen fabric, with it's natural stretchiness is to beg for trouble I think. Not to mention all teh work if you're in the clothing business and want to make more than one.

/Eva

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Also, the way the horisontal and vertical stripes meets (the little square it makes where they overlap) is quite typical for checked fabrics.

But seriously, tartans:
http://tartanstore.net/tartan/Abertay/53572.html?
http://tartanstore.net/tartan/Argentina/53782.html?
http://tartanstore.net/tartan/Blue-Rust/54316.html?

Etc. You might not get the very clean Art Deco/Bauhaus look of the drawing, but you'd sure get the light, good-quality wool needed.....

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

I have two lengths in a box in my stash.

One of them yellow the other red. Bought them years ago for dirt cheap (a pound a yard or somesuch), washed them and they shrank a little and thickened/fluffed beautifully and then never got around to doing anything with them.

Teddy