{"id":72,"date":"2010-11-04T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luigi-bevilacqua.com\/news\/?p=53"},"modified":"2019-08-20T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:52:48","slug":"venetian-velvet-sforza-gonzaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luigi-bevilacqua.com\/en\/venetian-velvet-sforza-gonzaga\/","title":{"rendered":"The golden age of Venetian velvet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ancient weaving mill Luigi Bevilacqua presents a new collection of velvets, inspired by the golden age of the Republic of Venice: the 16th century.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The influence of oriental patterns on Venetian velvet in the 16th century<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four patterns Sforza, Ca&#8217; d&#8217;Oro, Alboreti and Gonzaga, whose\u00a0historical samples are part of Bevilacqua&#8217;s archive, reflect the influence of oriental decorative motifs on luxury fabrics. Such influence was at its peak in the 16th century, when velvet had its most successful age.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158\" style=\"width: 682px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luigi-bevilacqua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-04-Velluto-Gonzaga.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\" wp-image-158 \" title=\"Gonzaga Velluto | Tessitura Bevilacqua\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luigi-bevilacqua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010-11-04-Velluto-Gonzaga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gonzaga velvet by Tessitura Bevilacqua<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Techniques and devices to weave velvet<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These Venetian <a title=\"Catalogue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luigi-bevilacqua.com\/news\/2013\/02\/the-prestige-of-lampas\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">velvets<\/a> have been realized using handcrafted techniques and jacquard looms dating back to the first decades of the 20th century. Both the techniques and the looms represent a tradition which has been handed down from one generation to the next one within the Bevilacqua family.<\/p>\n<p>They are available in seven colours: rust, red, ivory, gold, indigo, old rose, olive green.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient weaving mill Luigi Bevilacqua presents a new collection of velvets, inspired by the golden age of the Republic of Venice: the 16th century. 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