Jacquard Love

Repeat after me: 1801 was the year of the jacquard.

It was then that Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard constructed a way to weave a pattern into a woven structure by developing a perforated card system that would attach to a loom.

For their Fall 2018 collection, Como-based silk mill Mantero took the concept of a simple jacquard and gave it some very colorful, and very visual, goodies.

Goody number one: a digital print. Made of silk and polyester, the cloth is digitally printed after it is woven into a flat jacquard -- the silk takes the print, the polyester does not.

Then...

Goody number two: the mill sandwiches a small retractable nylon yarn into the fabric during the weaving process that then puckers when a warm steam is applied, creating the highly-dimensional pleats.

I know, right?! ❤️