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Among the many fabrics used for women’s clothing stands out the cady, with its melodious name and refined appearance. Today Manufacture Lining Cimmino leads us to the discovery of cady fabric, particularly suitable for the realization of magnificent wedding dresses.

The name of this fabric comes from the city of Cadiz in Spain, the place from which its origins derive. The cady is a double-faced fabric consisting of a double warp with a high density of threads, while the weft is presented in combed frizz with several garments. On the one hand it appears rough and rough, on the other shiny and uniform.

The cady has always been used in the field of clothing, but in ancient times it was used mainly in the religious field to tunics and vestmentsthat were to appear as sacred vestments and of some importance, but was also widely used to make large palandrane with long sleeves, lined with fur, which were worn as cloaks of the richest people, belonging to the social classes of the nobility and the upper bourgeoisie.

Types of cady fabric

The cady fabric is available in different types: you can find the cady canvas or the cady satin, the cady wool or the cady silk, the cady cotton or the cady raion viscose. The silk cady is the most valuable and is used especially for evening dresses. It is particularly loved for its perfect fall and is presented in various weights and shades of color: in the variant white or ivory is used to make wedding dresses, while in the black version it represents the starting point for the creation of sheaths from the sliding line. In its infinite shades is the favorite fabric for the realization of draped dresses, with drip necklines and special cuts.

Cady fabric: what is it used for?

The cady is among the precious fabrics chosen for wedding dresses, in particular for the simple and essential models, such as the one worn by Meghan Markle. The wife of Prince Harry has opted for a minimal wedding dress characterized by the elegant boat neckline and three-quarter sleeves made of double-link silk cady: the fabric “shiny opaque” has managed to enhance the shade of pure white much desired by the protagonist of the wedding.

The biased cut gives the cady fabric for wedding dress a special elasticity, creating a snug effect that is much loved by brides who have chosen a simple ceremony, but chic, and they do not want to give up a touch of sensuality on the most important day of their life.

The cady fabric is also used to give shape to formal dresses, elegant and refined, designed for different occasions and special events to attend. This kind of clothes is asked for the maximum fit, an embrace of comfort and aesthetics: the movements must be fluid and precious details, to give back the image of value that you expect from a dress chosen for a special evening.

Making clothes using the cady is not an easy thing: it is a recommended fabric for expert seamstresses, because it is very slippery and tends to move while sewing, for which you use needle and thin thread.

You have to be very careful about the length and tension of the stitches: if the stitches are not adjusted exactly the fabric tends to curl and not respect the desired shape.

Being a particularly delicate fabric for washing it is good to read carefully the label that accompanies it: it is preferable dry cleaning or a specific program for delicate garments. The time of ironing is also to be considered, as steam tends to curl this type of fabric.

Crepe Cady Atena Fabric

Within the wide range of fabrics for formal dresses selected by Manifattura Foderami Cimmino stands out the fabric Crepe Cady Atena, a light and elastic material, declined in numerous trendy shades of color. It is used to make elegant pieces of clothing and entire ceremonial clothes to show off on occasions where maximum refinement is required.

The Cady Athena fits within the family of fabrics that take the generic name of crêpe fabrics: they are different fabrics in composition and weight, united by the rippled, grainy and wavy look.

The crepe fabric Zaira, for example, is lightweight, particularly suitable for making blouses and blouses, dresses and skirts, wide trousers, wedding and ceremony gowns. The Scuba Crepe Stretch fabric, however, is a soft and durable elastane polyester fabric, used in the field of casual and sports clothing.

After the crisis of recent years which has also seen a fall in the turnover of the textile sector, the latter is finally preparing to restart and recover ground.
Made in Italy is no longer threatened, despite the prices of raw materials and the vertiginous increase in the cost of energy. These two factors, in fact, are redesigning the priorities of the manufacturing industries, which face the increases that affect heavily within the supply chain.

The future of the Italian textile and fashion industry was analyzed at the annual meeting of SMI (Sistema Moda Italia – Federazione Tessile e Moda), headed by the new president Sergio Tamboriniappointed on September 29.
SMI believes that, through an investment policy to be launched in a timely manner, it is possible to preserve and relaunch the supply chain. The association has thus elaborated a strategy based on three plans of participation, with total investments for approximately 8 billion euros: emergency participations, strategic participations of medium period, strategic participations of along period.

The main focus of the Tamborini programme is the increasingly topical theme of sustainability, conceived in synergy with the principles of the circular economy to be applied also in the fashion sector. Along with environmental sustainability, crucial for the relaunch of the sector, there is the need to implement new technologies. The latter must be accompanied by increasingly specific and avant-garde skills: in this way, it is consumed less respecting even those that are the needs of fashion, which always needs novelty.
In this regard, Europe and the European Commission have defined an instrument, the PEF, which measures the environmental impact of companies and then directs them towards new forms of circularity increasingly evolved and less impacting on the environment.

Manifattura Foderami Cimmino: ethics of recycling and eco-sustainable fabrics

Since fashion and the world of furniture are increasingly heading towards a turning point of an eco-sustainable type, Cimmino also presents its catalogue of biological and recycled fabrics, produced from the cellulose of trees or from waste from other production chains.

Fashion based on the minimum impact and on the model of the circular economy provides for the reuse of waste, eliminating only the bare necessities: it is precisely from therecycling of plastic and waste fibres that some of the Cimmino fabrics, ambassadors of the Made in Italy in the world are born. The eco-sustainable Cimmino fabrics are an indication of extreme quality, being carefully processed in detail, and in addition they are eco-friendly, as they are oriented to the environment, work and animal rights.

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