Mercerised cotton takes light better than ordinary cotton, and in a velvet that shows as a deep, almost wet shine along the pile. What separates this one from a flat plain velvet is the streaking through the ground, which gives it the look of a cloth already lived with rather than one just off the roll. Stain and crease resistant, 70,000 Martindale, 590 g a metre. Thirty-six shades, set to match everything else in the collection. 145 cm wide, made in Italy.
