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Green and Yellow Shweshwe Fabric

£12.50

Green and Yellow Shweshwe Fabric from South Africa

100% Cotton
Main Colour: Green
Length: Sold by the metre
Width: 90 cm (35 inches)
Weight: 158 g (after washing)

35 in stock

A beautiful green and yellow shweshwe fabric with a circle pattern. This is the original shweshwe from South Africa, from the popular three cats brand.

This one features a circle print pattern. To give you an idea of the scale of the pattern, look at the last image which shows a tape rule shown in inches. Each circle in the pattern is about 1 inch wide. This is approximately 2.5 cm.

FABRIC DETAILS
100% Cotton
Main Colour: Green
Length: Sold by the metre
Width: 90 cm (35 inches)
Weight: 158 g (after washing)

This fabric is sold by the metre and this listing is for one metre of fabric. To buy more than one metre, use the arrows above to select the number of metres you need and a continuous length of fabric will be sent to you. Kindly note that colours may appear differently on your computer screen or device.

WASHING INSTRUCTIONS

  • Wash Separately
  • 40 degree wash
  • Do not bleach
  • Do not tumble dry
  • Do not dry clean
  • Warm Iron

The recommendation is that you ALWAYS WASH Shweshwe fabric before sewing. This will remove the stiffness of the fabric.

ABOUT SHWESHWE FABRIC
Shweshwe is a printed dyed cotton fabric widely used in traditional South African clothing; dresses, skirts, and so on. It was originally dyed indigo but is now manufactured in a variety of colours and designs. The formal name for shwe shwe is ‘Indigo-dyed discharge printed fabric’.

It is a trademarked fabric and is manufactured by Da Gama Textiles in the Zwelitsha township outside King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Weight 0.2 kg

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