Galliera Light Pink

All our velvet panne scarves are produced in very small series and they are all hand painted, so each piece is unique. IF THE COLOR IS NOT SPECIFIED in the product name, it is advisable to contact us before ordering, we can send you photos of the colors available at the moment.

Dress with Lilies, 1896

Black silk velvet, ivory silk satin, ivory silk tulle, metallic sequin embroidery, gold metallic threads, blades, faceted metallic beads, pearly glass beads imitating cultured pearls and mirrors (Palais Galliera collection, Paris). Made by her official couturier - Worth, the first haute couture house in the history of fashion - this dress is above all a creation of Countess Greffulhe. It has a "princess" cut (without a seam at the waist), unusual for the time, but which highlighted the slimness of the wearer. Above all, this dress proclaims to those who know how to see it that Countess Greffulhe is an aesthete and a woman of wit: the berthe that could fold into bat wings is an allusion to the tutelary animal of her cousin, the poet Robert de Montesquieu, while the fleur-de-lis motif refers to a verse that the latter had composed in honor of the Countess: "Beautiful lilies that look with your black pistils!". The motif of this scarf is inspired by this dress.

MANUFACTURING

Two parallel sheets of silk muslin are connected by a viscose (wood cellulose) warp fed by 1064 bobbins.

Velvet is created by razor-cutting the viscose threads and separating the two layers of silk muslin. The incomparable moiré or shine is obtained by pannage of the velvet which is laid down and brushed with a steam roller. These first steps are carried out in our weaving workshops in the Loire.

After weaving, shaving and pannage, the two-tone piece (black muslin background and white viscose pattern), which measures on average 30 meters (which makes it possible to obtain around twenty shawls) arrives in our finishing workshop on rue Romarin in Lyon, to be colored. The coloring of the white velvet is done in an artisanal way by hand and with a brush, which means that each piece is unique.

Last operation: fixing the colors. This is obtained by steaming, which guarantees the definitive permanence of the shade.

It is in the sewing workshop near Lyon that this marvelous, long and precise work is completed by creating a satin stitch finish.