Fabrics

Fabric sales, design, alteration and repairs.

Choosing a suit fabric is vital to the cut and hang of the garment, colour is a matter of choice and design is a matter of taste.

If you want a fabric but don’t want us to make your next suit, we will sell you the fabric, you may want fabric for a variety of uses, whatever it is, we can help.

Needles can supply most fabrics for whatever purpose you may have.

SUIT FABRICS

These are the main types of wool:

Wool is a common fabric used in men's suits. It can be processed either through worsted or woolen yarn.

It is widely known that worsted wools are as good as it gets when it comes to men's suit fabrics.

• Tweed
Tweed is a very heavy wool fabric, it is often a popular choice in colder climates. Tweed has a coarse feel to it, and is often seen worn as a sport coat.
• Tropical
This is usually a type of wool crepe, which is a lightweight fabric. It's more of a summer weight, most suitable for wearing in warmer climates. Being lighter, it wrinkles pretty easily, and therefore requiring frequent visits to the dry-cleaner. This obviously would not be an every day kind of suit fabric.
• Herringbone
This fabric has a broken weave that gives it a zig-zag pattern like the skeleton of a herring.
• Flannel
A medium-weight fabric that can be plain or twill weaved. It can also be produced by worsted or woolen yarn. It is very suitable for the winter due to it being the heaviest of the non-tweed wools. Flannel is nice but because it holds heat, it is not exactly ideal for office environments.

ALTERNATIVE SUIT FABRICS:

• Cotton
This is likely the most acceptable choice for men's suit fabric that isn’t wool. Many people look for cotton suits that have a bit of lycra or something that gives it stretchability. Cotton tends to crease easily though, which could result in looking a bit crumpled.
• Linen
Made from the flax plant, it's a very light and smooth material. Linen has a very tropical and airy feel to it, but it wrinkles very quickly.
• Polyester
This is a cheap synthetic material, that should NEVER be worn as a suit fabric. It is hot, because it traps body heat, wrinkles rather easily and often looks unnaturally shiny.
• MicroFibers
Another synthetic material, like polyester, but has very fine(small) fibers which allows it to "breathe" better than polyester. One of the cheapest men's suit fabrics available. This is not a quality suit fabric.

Whatever you may want, give us a call, we are here to help, we give impartial advice and if we can supply you with your fabrics you will be assured it is the highest quality material at the most competitive prices.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sami