Texture rubbing is the idea. The surface carries faint impressions of other things, the way a pencil rubbing carries a brass or a stone, and they are shallow enough that from a distance the cloth reads as a plain with a satin sheen. Only close to does the hammered surface resolve into anything.
Cotton with polyamide, which is where the wear resistance comes from: 50,000 Martindale rubs under a silky face is not a usual combination. Eighteen colourways. 135 cm, made in Italy.
