A defining piece that accentuates luxury for bridal or evening wear. Velvet shawl is known for its superior ability to resist wear and crushing. Extraordinary richness and thickness of this fabric, intense colors of natural dyes, velvet shawls are crafted with intricate patterns. These shawls are unparalleled in their look and are luxuriously opulent, elegant and are very comfortable. Velvet shawls come in multitude of burnout and plain styles, in several colors. The superior quality of velvet is that it mixes well with a variety of fabrics such as viscose & viscose, viscose & staple, 100% Cotton, Polyester & Cotton, silk, lurex (jari) velvet etc. The colors are opted which blend or contrast with fabrics with the same or different textures and patterns, to support or separate the existing combinations. Velvet are made ideally from silk, linen, mohair, wool and cotton though cotton often results in a slightly less luxurious fabric.
History
Velvet can be made from many different kinds of fibers. It was very expensive and was among the luxury goods. Velvet was difficult to clean, but now in modern times, dry cleaning is used. The art of velvet-weaving probably originated in ancient Kashmir around the beginning of the fourteenth century. The earliest sources of European artistic velvets were Lucca, Genoa, Florence and Venice, and Genoa that continues to send out rich velvet textures. Later the art was taken up by Flemish weavers, and in the 16th century Bruges attained a reputation for velvets which was superior in quality.
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