Pepino is a jacquard velvet from the Parada collection, a semi-plain in which a dense viscose pile is broken by a fine woven texture, closer to a shifting watermark than a pattern. It reads as a plain from across the room and as something considerably more worked in the hand. Rated at forty thousand rubs for general domestic upholstery, with flame-retardant treatments available where regulations require, it is the sort of velvet that lets bolder patterns elsewhere do the talking.
