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The Silk Guild in Venice: the first weavers
The success of Venetian luxury silk fabrics began with the guilds born from the 13th century onwards. Here’s how they were born and what they produced
A history of fabrics in Venice
Let’s go to Altino, a city connected to the origins of Venice and its silk industry, where we took part in a meeting on the history of fabrics
The challenges of the Kremlin velvet
By means of the history of the Venetian velvet we made for the Kremlin we tell you how difficult the production of luxury velvet fabrics can be
A wave of new fabrics and colours
Tessitura Bevilacqua took part in the International Furniture Fair in Milan with some new luxury fabrics for upholstery and cushions in soft colour variants
From animal velvets to the White House: Bevilacqua, Iris and Carl Apfel
Tessitura Bevilacqua has produced fabrics for upholstery for Iris and Carl Apfel, too, interior designers and founders of Old World Weavers
From useful to beautiful in a single line
Today we’re taking a trip to a theatre, and a little back in time. Because we’re going to tell you how the soprarizzo Decó Göteborg velvet was born. So we have to pop over to Sweden. Swedish fabric designs on Italian furnishing fabrics A pair of months ago we went to...
Tempo Italiano, or Bevilacqua goes to Sweden
At the Tempo Italiano festival in Stockholm we showed the Italian fabrics for upholstery we produced for Swedish palaces in the 1920s
How did our history as Italian fabrics manufacturers begin?
Who were the first upholstery fabric manufacturers at Bevilacqua’s? Here’s how our history as one of the oldest Italian fabric mills began
A piece of (Italian) history
Tessiture Bevilacqua has been producing Venetian fabrics since 1700: so the Italian Chambers of Commerce named it Historical company of Italy
A weaver in time saves nine
The production of high quality silk fabrics in Venice restarted in the 19th century: here’s why and who were the weavers who made it possible
Weaving according to Diderot and D’Alembert
For the Tessiture Luigi Bevilacqua the Encyclopaedia represents the proof that its looms are original
Gallery sweet Gallery
The inhouse gallery Dimoregallery in Milan sells vintage furniture with a modern style, as the Breuer chair covered in Bevilacqua’s leopard velvet fabric
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