Savoir-faire
Expertises & Metiers
Noble ingredients, talent and exemplary design applied to innovation and intuition lead to artisanal and industrial excellence. We try to always embrace this philosophy and model with our expert weavers, designers and engineers.
Jacquard Weaves
In our commitment to recovering age old textile techniques inspired by heritage, we often use a special and traditional knitting art, call Jacquard. This fabric owes its name to Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a French gentleman who invented in 1804 the system of perforated cards which allowed a loom to weave patterns and not just plain cloth. One warp and one weft: the art of intertwining yarns has become central to Atelier Moderne Textiles unique savoir-faire. Our Jacquards are distinctive, woven with novelty yarns of innovative materials such as raffia, cauchu, organic tussah silk and metal lames, offering unique rich-full relief and tridimensionality.
Novelty Tweeds
Tweeds are natural, soft, beautiful, warm, durable, and especially elegant. Our novelty tweeds are made of noble materials and woven in collaboration with historical French and Italian weavers, whose expertise and dedication are a guarantee of impeccable quality. They reflect a very high form of creativity, design and craftsmanship. Always woven with particular yarns of divers fibres and spinning techniques, paired with rich lames, natural raffias, and knobby raw silks, they offer unique rich-full relief and tridimensionality.
Table Screen Printing
Our exceptional-quality traditional table screen printing is performed on a Lyon printing table in Italy. It relies on high-performance tools at the cutting edge of innovation, paired with a craftsman artisan savoir faire, through careful successive application of stencilled frames, color after color to create the motif zone by zone. Dyes penetrate and fix to textile fibres in such a way as to be resistant to washing and friction. Our decennale experience in printing has made us an invaluable resource in the table screen printing of fine fabrics for Decor. It is the result of a heritage of values developed over these years working with printing tables and frames, driven by a passion for excellence and craftsmanship.
Warp Printing Chine'
Dating back to the early 19th century, warp printing chine’ is a craftsmanship that combines the art of printing with that of weaving, resulting in a motif with characteristic shaded traits where the motif appears slightly striated and blended. Also known as chiné or chiné à la branche, the technique became popular in the second half of the 19th century in Europe, particularly at the French court. Today, the printed chain is used by craftsmen weavers who collaborate with Atelier Moderne Textiles to create textiles that combine this ancient savoir-faire with new opulent novelty designs.
Silk Velour Jacquards and Epingle Stitch
Atelier Moderne Textiles has brought its own personal bespoke artistic direction and contemporary design to the old technique of velvet jacquard weaving, always safeguarding and never compromising on the selection of fine materials and the quality of the early productions which date back to the Bourbon court of Caserta. The turn of the century looms we utilise, originally operated by hand, and then motorised in the early 1920’s still produce a mere 6 to 8 yards of precious silk velvet a day. In 2020 Atelier Moderne Textiles successfully incorporated into its Velvet Jacquard creations the savoir-faire of the Epingle Loop Stitch; an old time lost technique used in Venetian and Lyonnaise velvet jacquards, All our velvets are born from the selection of the best custom dyed fibres of organdi silk, and woven in Italy.
Velour Unis
At the beginning of the 14th century, the peculiar properties of velvet, the splendid yet softened depth of dye-colour it exhibited, at once marked it out as a fit material for ecclesiastical vestments, and sumptuous royal robes. Certainly the most magnificent textures of medieval times were Italian velvets. Atelier Moderne Textiles offer the same traditional yarn dyed velvets woven of silk organdi yarns craftily dyed to intensify the brilliance and softness of the silk. It takes 50 hours of weaving, controlled by skilled artisans according to ancient tradition, to produce two rolls of this precious silk velvet. Cashmere and Baby Mohair silk velvets are also part of our offering. Our Cashmere Silk velvet being made of an extremely warm, soft and light fibre obtained from cashmere goats from Inner Mongolia, have the classic lustre and extreme softness of opulent textiles. Similarly our Baby Mohair velvet is produced from the fibres of the angora goat in Turkey, blended with the finest organdi silk yarns. Our Mohair is characterised by a natural elasticity, that gives it strength and durability, and also by the shiny translucent color and uniform appearance of its fibres.
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