Santo is a jacquard velvet from the Parada collection, its viscose pile laid over a cotton-rich ground and worked as a semi-plain, so the interest sits in the surface rather than in any drawn motif. The woven texture breaks the pile just enough to keep large upholstered pieces from reading as slabs of colour. Rated at thirty thousand rubs, general domestic, it is a velvet for everyday sitting rooms, soft in hand and quietly dressed.
