In a romantic and industrious 19th century Italy, silk production became entwined with the advent and rise of advertising posters. It’s an unusual link between seemingly different and distant worlds. How and why did this unexpected union between trade, visual art and communication come about?...
5 reasons pure silk is perfect for your lingerie. Silk is a fine luxury fabric, soft to the touch and with a luminous sheen. But as well as looking and feeling spectacular, silk has unique properties that make it perfect for undergarments. Let's discover its properties together....
Silk is elegant, refined and sustainable. And it can be sporty, too. Sportswear has become increasingly technical in recent years, especially for professional athletes. But it doesn’t have to be synthetic. Natural materials have unique characteristics that make them ultra high-performance. Take wool and silk: when used together, they offer a number of benefits when you’re practising sport....
Article written by an enthousiast reader for the “Witnesses” series, dedicated to who, just like us, gives its daily contribution to spreading knowledge about this fiber, so natural and precious....
According to experts and dermatologists, silk is not only one of the most refined and elegant fabrics, but it also has features which are extremely useful as to slow down skin ageing and hair weakening. How is it possible for a fabric to have anti-ageing properties?...
Silk yarns derive from this peculiar structure (see picture); as for us to understand what silk actually is, we need to start from here. The picture has been realized thanks to an electronic microscope, which highlights the structure of a natural silk filament as it is made by silkworms....
Birth, engine, emblematic representation of feelings and movements. This is “Silk” for Turin-born Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. ...
“My poems have a silky sound, like the rustling of your dress on the stairs.” Hermann Hesse. Silk is like music. Not just for the soft and romantic rustling we can appreciate when we wear silk-made dresses, but also because silk is used to produce the strings we see on many music instruments. ...
When we think of contemporary art, what we think of at first are performances, exhibitions, video-art, photography, digital art and other techniques and languages/means of communication which stimulates a sort of conceptual creativity. But what if the canvas was “painted” with silk yarns?...
We hear, read and talk more and more in our daily life about sustainability in many contexts but, exactly, what does this mean?...
