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Plaids, cushions, trimmings: New textile furnishing complements

The furnishing complement, understood as plaids, cushions and trimmings, has in recent times been subjected to an accelerated search for modernity and up-to-dateness that has no comparison in the world of textiles. Above all it is in the three sectors mentioned where the most interesting results have arisen.

Starting with the plaids

Besides new technical solutions in spinning and the use of ever-more noble raw materials (once reserved for blankets) such as cashmere or alpaca, the plaid (increasingly as living-room throws and therefore not only used as laprugs to keep ourselves warm but also as a feature item of personalisation) is increasingly "in", thanks especially to colour. Intense tones, fading shades, games with dyes and nuances, are what it is all about, in a self-pursuance of spots, stripes, and in some cases true reproductions of ancient prints or perfect, high-resolution jacquard patterns that have pushed the plaid ever-more into the world of furnishing complements. The cushions on the other hand ... ... have followed a different path, though arriving at the same destination.

Starting off from the colour (with collections that even counted on 100 different tones), in the last two years technical solutions have developed (sometimes also very simple but having a sure effect, such as beads sewn on to both sides) that have increasingly transformed them into a decorative article. It is ever easier in fact to see the cushions scattered over living room floors as true furnishing items, while just a few years ago they were rigorously positioned on sofas or armchairs.

Things are different again with the trimmings

Great efforts have been made from the point of view of stylistic tendencies, with some simpler collections created; linear even from the chromatic viewpoint. Precisely because the braiding has increasingly to match innovative fabrics, the research has moved towards simplicity, refinement, abandoning the path of “opulence” so as to embark on the one of stylistic sobriety.