100% Linen 'Cruise' - Great Barrier Reef *Clearance Fabric Sale 30% Off

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Fabric is sold in units of 50cm (.5m; ½ m). Eg. for 2.5m, enter the Quantity ‘5’.
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100% Linen ‘Cruise’ – Great Barrier Reef 

• 148-150cm wide
• French Flax 
• Made in Japan

The NEW Cruise Linen Collection is the perfect summer weight linen; a gorgeous weight for loose shirts and tops, full skirts and flowy dresses.  This is lighter and a little sheerer than other linens in the Cloth Edit range, and it fills the mid-summer brief.  This fabric isn’t too bulky when gathered, and is perfect for those on-trend multi-tiered dresses, and statement sleeves. 

Great Barrier Reef is named after Australia's natural treasure, with its rainbow of corals, and renowned for its glorious red coral.  This linen is a stunning coral red.  It's very wearable, and works so well with Baltic  and Jeju.       

This fabric is a bit transparent if you have light underneath the cloth, but when the fabric is around your body as a garment, this decreases that perception. Select flesh toned undergarments and in most cases you will be fine.    Skirts may need a lawn lining or slip, but may not. 

For your cloth edit consider:  semi-fitted or looser shirts, blouses, tops and tunics; dresses (eg. wrap, fit and flare, tunic, shirt dresses); skirts (eg. wrap, gathered, pleated).  It would be great in wide leg, loose pants or shorts in summer also.

We stock so many beautiful indie patterns that would be a perfect match with this Cotton fabric.  Here are some suggestions:

• By Hand London – Hannah, Lizz, Sandeep, Tamzin, Anna
• Closet Core Patterns – Kalle, Cielo, Elodie, Charlie, Pauline Dress, Fiore
• Folkwear Patterns – Mexico Dress (and Top), Hapi and Haori, Japanese Kimono, Gaza Dress, Armistice Blouse, Walking Skirt.
• Friday Pattern Co. – Sagebrush Top, Square Neck, Top Wilder Gown, Davenport, Saltwater Slip Dress, Hughes Dress.
• Homer + Howells – Cissy, Ingrid.    
• In The Folds – Collins Top
• I AM Patterns – Cassiopee, Gaia, Jain, Joy, Juliette, Lucienne, Sherazade, Cinderella, Irma, Diana
• Named Patterns – Reeta Shirt Dress, Helmi, Ninni, Inari
• Papercut Patterns – Array, Nexus, Sequence, Tide, Pinnacle, Meridian, Mirri, Maya, Tula
• Pauline Alice Patterns – Coeli, Sedavi, Calvari, Cami, Lliria, Mila
• Pattern Fantastique – Vali, Calyx, Celestial, Teia Dress, Mersis
• The Assembly Line – Cap Sleeve Shirt, Cuff Top, Cuff Dress, Oversized Shirt, Minimalist Kaftan, Wide Leg Jumpsuit

Cloth Care

We recommend a gentle machine wash or hand washing linen.  It is important not to wring the fabric or garment, so if you are handwashing, roll up in a towel to press out excess water.  To ensure the long life of a garment, don’t tumble dry as this breaks down the fibres.  If you do tumble dry the cloth, then do so on a cooler setting.  It is preferable to wash inside out.  Wash colours separately.   Shake out the wet garment and dry flat (or on a hanger) in the shade. Use a warm/hot iron and spot test. You may need a water spray bottle to get rid of the wrinkles when you are ironing, or just embrace the beautiful crumpled look of the cloth ;-).  Linen softens upon wearing and laundering.