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Bella Solids Merlot Fabric By Moda Fabrics
Few solids in the Bella Solids Merlot Fabric range stop you quite like this one. Deep, dark wine-red with a cool purple undertone, it gives any quilt a sense of drama and depth without fighting the prints around it. Use it for sashing, binding, or bold accent blocks.
Fabric Details
- Price: $21.50 per metre
- Colour: Deep, dark wine-red with a cool purple undertone; saturated and rich, reads near-black in low light and opens to a true merlot wine-red in direct light
- Design: Bella Solids Merlot, a plain-weave solid; no print, no directional element
- Width: 112cm wide
- Material: 100% Premium Cotton
- Brand: Moda Fabrics
- Designer: Moda Fabrics
- Collection: Bella Solids
- Country of Origin: Korea
- Style Number (MPN): 9900 279
The Design Story
Bella Solids is Moda's long-running core solid fabric range, designed to give quilters a consistent, colourfast cotton solid across hundreds of shades without the need to mix brands or compromise on quality. The range is a staple in the quilting community for good reason: the high-density plain weave presses flat across short seams, behaves predictably on the cutting mat, and reads cleanly as a true solid in any block layout. Merlot sits at the darkest, most saturated end of the red-wine spectrum, landing somewhere between a deep burgundy and a cool plum-red; it absorbs visual weight and grounds anything placed beside it. At this depth it works especially well as a contrast anchor alongside soft creams, dusty pinks, and warm ochre palettes. Jemima's Creative Quilting stocked this colourway because a reliable, deeply pigmented wine-red solid is one of the most versatile gap-fillers in the stash.