I have recently had an Inkworks Case incentive card wich is a pieceworks come apart naturally and are very disappointed in the structure of these cards especially the pieceworks item .
It was described as a piece of the T Shirt
The piece of the shirt is a bit larger than the space on the card I expected a piece of the T shirt to be there.
But the piece in the card is a bit larger than the space provided and is not as described it is tissue paper thin possibly 10 cm in diameter must be a pretty thin t shirt .
I think it is actually a piece of dyed tissue paper,
Considering the price being asked for these type of cards and how they are described very disappointing and considered a rip off .
Even though Inkworks are no longer in buisness are all other companies piece works cards the same .

Obviously I'm not looking at the piecework card you have in your hand piko, so what I'm saying is just based on my conjecture from having bought these older "relic" cards in times when they were produced.

By in large, piecework or costume cards officially produced by Inkworks, or any other licensed manufacturer, should not just come apart if properly stored. However there were different ways that the cards were made, depending upon what type of insert was involved. In sports cards for instance, some inserts like bat or wood pieces were merely glued in a cut in space. With fabric, it was usually pressed under a larger cut out. Sometimes the fabric material might cause the cut-out edges to rise up and crease. For that reason, you wanted a card that did not look damaged, but it was harder to find if the swatch was thick or multi-layered.

Now as soon as relic cards became common hits in boxes, the one-color swatch lost its appeal. Premium money was going for odd swatches, both multi-color, multi-layer, and with seams and stitching, sold as variants. That's where the fun started, because clever people started to tamper with piecework and swatch cards to make them look like variants.

Sometimes they would swap out, add to, or recolor the swatch. Sometimes it was sloppy, sometimes it looked very good. Either way, this tampering destroys the card as it is now counterfeit, even if there is some original fabric left.

I would doubt that Inkworks put dyed tissue paper in the card, so that's a red flag if indeed it's what you have. The card shouldn't be coming apart naturally unless the fabric was thick, and yours is paper thin.

In my time I have seen whole cards created from the glued front and back of two of the same card and a relic cut in between, to create a totally fake relic card. The explanation was often that these were very rare cards specially released thru the manufacturer's back door. Only novices believed that, but it was true that these counterfeits were handmade and some looked very nice, especially with fake patches.

So my point is, be careful with fabric or material cards from the peak years when they were worth money. People played games and, although the titles may have aged out, these items are still in collections as both known novelties and unknown tampered and worthless fakes.

That is interesting.
I purchased it as a pair off at the time a reputable seller so I presume that it is legimate and over the years the glue or whatever it was that was used has deteriorated .
But it is the swatch that i am really amazed about what it is .
As far as I am concerned after seeing this even though it is nearly 20 years old there are still out there collectors that buy these alleged genuine items even me occasionally had actually seen what the swatch was would of never paid the money being asked.