Velvet

Velvet is a material that has been known for many hundreds of years, has a high-quality character and is also used in jewellery making. The material known today as velvet was formerly famous under the term sammet. It is a certain type of fabric into which a thread pile is worked. The high quality of velvet is evident from the fact that the robes of kings and other nobles were made from this textile. When weaving velvet, an additional system of weft or warp thread is integrated into a linen-bound fabric as a basis. In this way, the pile warp creates loops and nubs, which are unravelled in the final manufacturing step. These cut pile warps then produce the typical pile of fibres. It is precisely this pile, or more precisely its length, that is also decisive for distinguishing between velvet, velour and plush. With velvet, the pile is the shortest, namely a maximum of 3 millimetres long. Thus, velvet remains soft and gentle, but is hardest in relation to the other two fabrics. In addition to real velvet, which is produced as described above, there is also fake velvet. In this case, a flocking is simply glued onto a base fabric. Velvet is particularly interesting for necklaces and also for bracelets for the jewellery industry.