Cut and sew: Linen wrap dress
A good linen dress is a summer must-have. Cool, airy, casual, and chic. Here’s how to draft a pattern and sew a linen wrap dress of your own design.
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A classic, plain-weave linen with a wonderful two-tone effect in aqua. This lightweight linen is a brilliant, blousy material for kerchiefs, shirts, tunics, and swingy summer pants.
Read moreShade: | aqua |
Material: | 100% linen |
Width (cm): | 142 cm |
Width (inches): | 56 ″ |
Weight (gsm): | 146 gsm |
Weight (oz): | 4.3 oz |
Drape: | slightly supple |
Shrinkage: | 3-7 % |
Care: | |
Availability: | while supplies last |
Minimum order: | 0.2 m |
in stock 49.5 m
Shot linen is made like any other plain weave linen, but the warp and weft are different colors and the varying thickness of the natural threads creates a subtle tonal effect that sits well wherever you don’t want a single block of color but you don’t want a distracting pattern either.
In its lightweight variation, shot linen is a brilliant, blousy material for kerchiefs, shirts, tunics, and swingy summer pants. Its heavier variant is good for trousers, skirts, and jackets, as well as curtains, home decor, and even period costumes.
This fabric is sturdy and resilient, but like all linens it does shrink, so we recommend washing before cutting. Please check the weight before ordering, we have various types of various thicknesses.
Wash dyed linens at 40°C; white and natural linens can be laundered at 60°C. Iron on the highest setting; may also be steamed. If machine drying, use a short, gentle cycle.
Generally, pre-shrinking is needed for linen, cotton, and rayon, but for finer fabrics (light rayon, Tencel and modal) proceed with care – don't use hot water or a hot iron, simply launder the fabric the way you will be laundering the completed garment.
Most of our fabrics are one-time offers that last until they are sold out. However, some more popular items are always restocked or can be ordered on request. As a rule, this applies to notions, where the selection is pretty consistent, but may also include some types of fabric. Look at the product's availability value – it shows whether the goods are available while supplies last, in the core inventory or in a seasonal collection .
The fabrics in our core inventory, seasonal collections and limited editions are from repeated production cycles that we have quality-tested – given proper care their colors should not bleed. Fabrics that are on offer while supplies last are one-off products that have not been individually tested. For flax and wool, we recommend a sample test.
Yes. Like other natural materials linen can fade in the sun. Avoid hanging dyed linen to dry in the sun and do not hang dyed linen garments in places at home where there is direct sunlight either. For curtains and drapes, take into account that the color will fade over time or back them with a blackout fabric.
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