Tech-Checks: E. Miroglio A/W 2014 |

Weavers were always able to produce patterns by crossing coloured yarns intro stripes or checks and that's one of the main reasons why, throughout history, certain patterns have always been in fashion.

Though some patterns are also rather versatile, a taste for plaids developed during the First World War because there was a dye scarcity that made prints hard to find. Around the same time woven geometries started becoming fashionable as the clean lines of modernism became appealing, and this also secured a fashionable life to checks and plaids.

Specific geometrical motifs, checks included, could actually be considered as "technomorph" patterns, meaning that they rely on the latest technology available and, quite often, they evolve with it.

Hence in our technological times, it's easy to reinterpret them in a digital way as indicated by one of the trends suggested during Pitti Filati 73 by E. Miroglio.

One of the company's Autumn/Winter 2014-15 trend is indeed entitled "Tech-Check", and refers to checks filtered through a digital eye.

There were quite a few examples of this trend at Miroglio's stand with designs mainly made with the "Cuba Libre" (second image in this post – in this case the tech-check is matched with sleeves reproducing quilted motifs to create a nice contrast and give also a lighter and more dynamic look to the rather thick knit), "Cipria" and "Houston" (ideal for fuzzy and blurred houndstooth effects) yarns, while the 100% viscose "Mojito" seems a bit better to create striped digital interferences (last image in this post).

Some of the designs on display at the E. Miroglio's stand were reminiscent of Nukeme's glitch knits, others seemed a digitalised and pixellated version of Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 2007 bags and Celine's Autumn/Winter 2013 laundry bag coats, dresses and accessories (View this photo), but all introduced pretty well this interesting and technological take on traditional patterns.