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PURITY, LINEN’S RIGHTEOUSNESS
04/06/2014
Linen is
the great protagonist of PURITY Collection, last extraordinary collection by
CTA, Centro Tendaggi Arredamento. It all
starts from the purity of a long time appreciated and valued fiber, the
whiteness of such a good quality fabric, the versatility of a resistant yarn that is a constant
inspiration for fashion industry or
furnishing field, motion picture industry and theatre. As our primary goal is
the accurate care for details and a long research, CTA last collection
privileged a vegetable fiber, the most ancient fiber ever, a plant man has
used for 6000 years for whatever purpose
in his life.
Purity
inspires itself to Roman Empire cities’ beauty, an epoch in which linen had its
maximum spread, legitimizing it as a precious fabric and common ordinary cloth,
at the same time. Linen is a versatile material, refined elegant
functional eco-friendly and sustainable
as well, available in different colors and types. If linen manufacturing basics
remained the same throughout the years, it’s true that technology let the
manufacturing techniques perfect so that a great increase in finishing and good
quality is easily obtained. Softer or more robust fabrics are a tangible
reality.
With the
lines of this new Purity Collection, CTA traces back the ways that brought this
fiber in Central Europe, going from Egypt through Babylon and Phoenician lands
to Roman lands and Middle East. Due to specific manufacturing processes, linen
becomes a very versatile fabric thus underlying that typical CTA collections’
feature, that is to say, the great number of always matching references it
offers. The available materials and nuances, in fact , can be matched in
perfect harmony depending on the different uses we need, be it fabric for
window treatment curtains or for light
upholstery or soft furnishing fabrics.