Help need to complete my Sherlock Coat

[The Lark]

Hi,

After watching the splendid BBC production of Sherlock I became enamoured with his wonderful Belstaff Milford greatcoat. Unfortunately, that coat costs around 1300 pounds and is discontinued.

BUT a friend of mine who sews has agreed to hand make a replica of the coat to my measurements, so long as I provide the materials.

SO I need to find some black-on-grey houndstooth coat wool - preferably in Irish tweed like the one from the show.

AND YET I can't find that fabric pattern anywhere! Not even on the net.

Please, can somebody help me source a coat-weight houndstooth wool of that shade? All hands on deck! It's for a good cause.

 

[Metatron]

Good luck. I too was rather impressed by that coat when I watched the series.

 

[Seb Lucas]

Have you contacted the Irish (and Scottish) companies that make tweed directly? Send them a photo and ask if they know how best to source this.

 

[Captain Lex]

That is an excellent coat to be infatuated with. It is one of many things tied for my favorite thing about that series. Definitely keep us updated on the materials! Hopefully we could all use the information.

 

[Tony B]

Dont Know about the fabric but this info should help your mate who is making it http://jessamygriffin.livejournal.com/10822.html

 

[The Lark]

We are already using that amazing blog as our guidelines for the coat design.

I shall email those tweed sellers and see what's what.

 

[Captain Lex]

The existence of that post mystifies me. But I love it.

 

[Tony B]

Lark you have a PM.

 

[AdW]

Hey Lark, would love to know if you were able to find a material you were happy with.