Sunday, November 03, 2013

Tweed~ VFG Fashion Parade for week of October 27th

Tweed

Ever-popular for cooler weather, vintage tweeds provide a certain refined, traditional old-world insouciance like no other fabric. From the VFG Fabric Resource:
With origins along the Tweed River bordering England and Scotland, the name tweed now is associated with a long list of fabrics, characteristically woolens, but also wool/manufactured fiber blends. The original tweeds were hairy and rough, now they are usually shaved, flattened and fulled in the finishing process. Still characteristic is the fairly coarse wool from which it is made.

Tweeds are usually in twill or plain weave, also seen is herringbone and basket weave. Their colors may be plain, heathered, marled, checked or plaid. Slubs are characteristic of some tweeds.

The name tweed is said to have originated in about 1840, when a London cloth merchant erroneously noted a consignment of “tweel” (Scottish name for twill) as tweed. Since the fabric was (and still is) made along the River Tweed, the name fits well.




Vintage 40s Fleck Tweed Hourglass Jacket Pencil Skirt from Big Yellow Taxi Vintage


Vintage 1960s Connemara Tweed Green Wool Suit offered by Poppy's Vintage Clothing

Vintage Grey Wool Newsboy Golf Style Hat available at Another Time Vintage Apparel



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