Liberty Style 100% Cotton Pima Lawn - Bauhaus (Brights)

Specification:

Weight: Light

Composition: 100% Cotton

Width: 148cm / 58.2inch

Pattern repeat: 31cm / 12.2inch

Introduction:

This true Liberty style classic was designed as part of Liberty Fabrics Classics collection that started in 1979, created to champion the most well-known and iconic designs from the Liberty archive, all year round. This heritage design epitomises the ditsy florals we know and associates with Liberty Lawn.

Colour:

Get your '70s groove on with this excellent Pima cotton lawn that is printed with a fabulously retro design, inspired by the Bauhaus art movement. This abstract design consists of brightly coloured blocks, chequerboard patterns and undulating curves. The bright primary and secondary colour palette of blue, red, green, orange, is paired with olive green, pistachio, beige and chocolate to recreate a bright '70s style. This will please those with an eye for the current retro trends of mellow tones paired with bright hues and contemporary design.

Properties:

Bauhaus Brights is 100% cotton; cool, breathable, super soft, silky smooth and stable, with the most gloriously malleable drape quality. This versatile fabric will hold crisp details (with a little lightweight interfacing) such as collars, facings and cuffs and will form the prettiest full gathers, for flounces ruffles and all those feminine details.

Garment Suggestions:

This fabulous Pima lawn has a very retro and vintage style making it perfect for '70s style clothing and other retro makes, yet its perfectly put together palette makes it equally ideal for sharp shirts, boxy cropped tops and other up to date classics. These classic designs in the softest lawns never date and by creating garments (or any other hand-crafted makes) from this stunning fabric you will be creating heirlooms of the future.

This fabulous Pima lawn has a very retro and vintage style making it perfect for '70s style clothing and other retro makes, yet its perfectly put together palette makes it equally ideal for sharp shirts, boxy cropped tops and other up to date classics. These classic designs in the softest lawns never date and by creating garments (or any other hand-crafted makes) from this stunning fabric you will be creating heirlooms of the future.

Create your own work of art by making stand-alone garments in Bauhaus Brights, embrace the '70s fashion revival and make all those superb homespun patchwork styles around too, such as The Tamarack Jacket - Grainline Studio.

Crafting? Add this perfect Pima lawn to your crafting stash for fun homespun makes. Specially selected colourful matching buttons, pom-pom trim or ric-rac and other sewing notions will add a customised style to your makes. Click on our Sewing Essentials menu tab for trims, pom-poms, braids & other fun haberdashery bits.

Pattern suggestions? For a delightful grown-up dress style, create the Wildergown - Friday Pattern Co for a bohemian prairie-style dress - make this pattern up with full gathers and layer up with cosy tights, boots and a cardigan to get even more wear from it. For a similar style; Stitchless TV's - Pontoon Tier Dress is super easy and has a V neckline that you can easily layer (wear with a roll neck top underneath?).

Click here to see the full collection of Pretty Pima Lawns & Poplins. Some of these fabrics come in a variety of colourways. Are you daring enough to use them together?

Check out our other colourways of this fabric, Bauhaus (Spices) - Liberty Style Pima Lawn and Bauhaus (Mellow) - Liberty Style Pima Lawn

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