Monet - Water Lilies in the Evening

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.

A leading figure of Impressionism, Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) moved to his property in Giverny in Normandy in 1883. It was at this time that he developed the representation of certain subjects in the form of series: haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral and around 1902 his famous water lilies… Water Lilies is a series of around 250 impressionist oil paintings produced by the painter during the last 31 years of his life. These paintings represent the flower garden, and more particularly the water lily pond. He works on the color effects created by light at different times of the day and year. Little by little the subject tends to disappear, the water lilies are soon nothing more than pretexts for painting and the boundaries between water and land gradually disappear…

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.