Weaving
It was the year 1998 when Mauro Vismara discovered his entrepreneurial passion thanks to the love for the hemp’s yarn. It was a difficult moment of great crisis in the weaving industry in which they used to work with reduced shifts. It was then when those who where masters in their job have given Mauro the chance of joining the industry and allowing him to start working with hemp fibers. Mauro’s ambitious project started in Piedmont: starting over again the hemp’s supply chain, which is still nowadays the heart and what keeps growing, a company capable of creating precious and unique yarns and fabrics.
ORTHOGONAL or WOVEN FABRIC
The woven fabrics, also know an orthogonal, are obtained from the interweaving of threads mounted vertically also known as “warps”, and horizontal threads named “weave”. The warp’s threads are mounted in parallel on a cylinder through a process called “warping”. The final result of this fusion give life to three different schemes named Canvas, Twill, and Satin.
jacquard
The Jacquard loom is a particular loom capable of creating complex designs.
It is a normal loom with the add of a machine that allows the free movement of the thread in the loom. It’s probably the biggest invention in the textile industry it allows to create much complex fabrics. It is told that this machine was invented by the French J.M Jacquard, while it has actually been invented 400 years ago by an Italian named Giovanni Calabrese. His invention wasn’t introduced to the textile tho because people feared that this creation could have replaced the human workers.
jersey
The Jersey is created thanks to machine named circular loom. It’s an interweaving of many different fibers that may vary from cotton to hemp, or linen, viscose, wool, or intimate mixes. During the process the threads are put on a series of curves named “bushes” which behave like some sort of spring, this process allows the jersey to become elastic. The fabric is then folded and wrapped into cardboard tubes. It is told that this fabric was originally used by the fishermen from the English island of Jersey, this is where his name comes from. At the beginning of the 20th century Coco Chanel fell in love with this fabric and started using it in the fashion industry.
