Eveningarwen
Well-Known Member
Hey all!
So I'm making this coat and just bought the last of this shown fabric. I'm trying to find fabric similar so I can make more of this coat in the future but seem to be coming up with nothing. The fabric is actually a wool/cashmere medium weight Ralph Lauren houndstooth tweed (blaaaargghhhhhh that's a lot of description for a fabric lol).
The most important aspects are it's a medium to heavy wool fabric with that black and dark grey check pattern/small box pattern. Everything I'm finding is either black and white or has loads of brown or blue mixed in with it.
If I can't find anything remotely similar I'm debating about getting a heavy wool black and white small houndstooth and having it professionally dyed dark grey. That should work in my head but maybe someone knows something I don't. I assume the black would stay darker and the white sections would dye to a charcoal grey but still give that two tone affect. Does anyone have any idea of the cost to dye fabric around the L.A. area? Is it by pound, by yard?
Any of the other sherlock threads have outdated links on fabrics that were similar and I've looked at UK websites, ebay, etsy, went all over fashion district in L.A., Int'l woolen and silks and Mood (which is where my original fabric came from). And there's just nothing out there. I'm hoping maybe someone knows of a random small shop/website that might have something similar orrrrrr.....Suggestions maybe lol? I've looked up mini houndstooth wool fabric, tweed wool coating, black and grey houndstooth tweed wool fabric...the list goes on and on.
Here's a photo of the jacket so you can see what I'm trying to replicate look wise.
![](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/eveningarwen/WSherlock-103_zpsfadbfa85.jpg)
So I'm making this coat and just bought the last of this shown fabric. I'm trying to find fabric similar so I can make more of this coat in the future but seem to be coming up with nothing. The fabric is actually a wool/cashmere medium weight Ralph Lauren houndstooth tweed (blaaaargghhhhhh that's a lot of description for a fabric lol).
The most important aspects are it's a medium to heavy wool fabric with that black and dark grey check pattern/small box pattern. Everything I'm finding is either black and white or has loads of brown or blue mixed in with it.
If I can't find anything remotely similar I'm debating about getting a heavy wool black and white small houndstooth and having it professionally dyed dark grey. That should work in my head but maybe someone knows something I don't. I assume the black would stay darker and the white sections would dye to a charcoal grey but still give that two tone affect. Does anyone have any idea of the cost to dye fabric around the L.A. area? Is it by pound, by yard?
Any of the other sherlock threads have outdated links on fabrics that were similar and I've looked at UK websites, ebay, etsy, went all over fashion district in L.A., Int'l woolen and silks and Mood (which is where my original fabric came from). And there's just nothing out there. I'm hoping maybe someone knows of a random small shop/website that might have something similar orrrrrr.....Suggestions maybe lol? I've looked up mini houndstooth wool fabric, tweed wool coating, black and grey houndstooth tweed wool fabric...the list goes on and on.
Here's a photo of the jacket so you can see what I'm trying to replicate look wise.
![](http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/eveningarwen/WSherlock-103_zpsfadbfa85.jpg)