Let's continue the high-tech thread that started with yesterday's post to look at further applications of innovative techniques in fashion that may help designing architectural elements or motifs.
The pictures included in this post refer to samples made by Italian company Bond Factory employing yarns by Lanecardate, a yarn company founded in the '70s in Biella by the Barberis Canonico family, who started working in the textile field in the 1660s.
This year the company launched a series of new yarns: "Vela" is a new generation of cashmere blend, a fine wool that boasts excellent quality in terms of purity, colour and absence of vegetable matter; "Duvet" is a padded yarn for extreme knitwear, comprising a skin of pure superfine wool padded with polyester (exactly like a duvet...); "Gros Grain", is a thick yarn in pure wild silk, obtained from the cocoons of silk worms living in their natural environment, while the "Lane Cotte" series includes a wide variety of light and heavy boiled wools, also silk blended for a sophisticated and shiny effect.
For the next season the company also carried out an in-depth research in innovative stitches, developing with the Bond Factory company high tech treatments of classic fabrics, from laser cut elements on double boiled wools bonded to light worstered jersey to knit and fabric combinations employing the bond-in technique; from thermowelded seams and coatings to neoprene bonded boiled wools, and fur-like wools double flaced with flannels.
The pictures included in this post show some of the most interesting effects that you may obtain using specific yarns and innovative techniques - from embossed star motifs to cracked surfaces; from printed to padded/perforated or laser cut boiled wools.
One of the most useful effects for architectural motifs is the following one: this sample is made using Lanecardate's Creme 2/50 and Cortina boiled wool (last image in this post).
The boiled wool elements forming geometrical shapes are thermowelded on the surface sample. Interestingly enough, these elements seem to reproduce the two-tone stone façade of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The façade of this church was actually based on the principle of harmonic proportions and numerical ratios, principles that may be re-employed for intriguing decorations and applications with an architectural twist about them.
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