In China, velvet are often called “sirong”, perhaps it is because the middle ages and Renaissance, velvet almost all use silk production – although today’s velvet are mostly blended fabrics, some even no silk composition.

Velvet is has a long history, its weaving process and even can be traced back to 2000 BC in Egypt. In a 809 ha RON al rashid (Baghdad Muslim king) and the treasures of the list, then recorded 500 horse velvet fabrics, the value of it is visible at the time not to lose the gold and silver jewelry. By the tenth century, in the Middle East and eastern Europe, velvet production reached a certain scale, some skilled weavers XiYi gradually, in Italy and Spain, built velvet production center. In 1278, king of England’s own tailor in Paris at a high price to buy a velvet fabric bed, mark the beginning of a popular the velvet. Because at the time, velvet still need completely hand-made, weaver was founded by a variety of guild and organization and strictly keep the secret of the manufacturing process, making the fabric market price at that time is very expensive, only the rich can afford to consume peerage velvet bed, curtain, jewelry and clothing these costly fashionable product, this situation until the industrial revolution to break.

Samuel Fildes in 1902 creation canvas painting. Works of Britain’s king Edward vii in shining red velvet cloak.
With the low price of raw material use and industrialized mass production, today’s velvet of course has not the invaluable. However, velvet delicate touch, fluent hang down feeling and elegant luster is still other fabrics can not match, so has been fashion designers showily fabric choice of love.

Velvet is a woven cut pile fabric, in silk, rayon, cotton, etc materials, surface smooth soft nap, is by wire was cut off in a effect. Although the earliest hand-made pure velvet fabrics and not too many things, as the production and technical skill, and now has a lot of very popular velvet type.

According to the pure velvet trim to design part nap, the rest of the villi present a three-dimensional jacquard pattern, is jacquard velvet. Flowers and abstract line is the most common jacquard pattern, in living in decorate this fabric is relatively commonly used.
Crumpling velvet just as its name implies is pure velvet after machine distortion crumpling treated fabrics. It mottle surface will produce very good gloss effect, in the fashion design is relatively common.

Panne velvet touch more smooth, more shining impressions, the ordinary velvet nap after high pressure flat produce. Panne velvet than ordinary velvet have higher nap density.

Let the skinny man tall and more massive
Velvet wear in the body has certain expand feeling, velvet dress especially is more suitable for the figure, so a thin man. Hollywood seems to know the truth, recently in velvet actor, from Joseph Gordon – Levitt, Chace Crawford to Adrien Brody, shape a thin, put on the velvet dress seems to be tall and strong some.

Luxury elegant yet soft and comfortable velvet is calendar year autumn winter season fashion indispensable elements, especially this year, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Hermes, Emporio Armani introduced such as velvet fashion brand too numerous to mention one by one. At this time of the New Year holiday, velvet is the most suitable for grand occasion row place to choose.

Unwittingly stack velvet dress, it is easy to damage the natural direction down, it is difficult to restore. As far as possible when storage with clothes tree hanging in closed closet, avoid unnecessary dust accumulation between villi.

Don’t use iron direct pressing velvet dress (unless there is a velvet fine of iron plate), the surface villus heated after overwhelmed difficult to set up, destroy the whole garment quality of a material. Suggest using steam iron, at a distance of a few centimeters clothing spray steam, at the same time use the hand gently level clothing; If the fold is too deep, suggest to professional dry cleaners processing.

If the stain with velvet, read the label on the clothing, in part, velvet is the water. For not washed, can use warm water wet clean towel, in smear place gently wipe up and down, until see stains, then wipe with paper towel blot in the water. For stubborn and large stains, or want to do comprehensive cleaning, or need to help dry cleaners.