Cool winter: wool scarves

In this period of the year everyone needs of wool scarves. Market offers various hues, fabrics and designs. Winter stoles are an inevitable accessory for modern women, rendering a classy touch to the otherwise bland winter clothes. The stole is soon replacing the shawl because a stole gives protection from the cold weather, at the same time reveals the beauty.

A Pashmina stole is made from mountain goats fur. There are a variety of Pashmina stoles in various colors, designs and textures. Pashmina stoles are rich-looking, easy to wear and washable.

A stole is a intricate part of women's dressing. While traveling to work it makes a fashion statement and also servers to protect from with the cold winter waves, a stole enhances her modern appeal. The simplest clothing can be given that boost of style by the textile accessories that are worn with them. A big buckle and broad belt can make the most ordinary pair of jeans look very attractive. The same could be said of scarves.

A dull coat or shirt can be made to look quite fantastic by using a brightly coloured scarf. The scarf has the added value of providing protection from the sun in summertime, as well as warmth during the chilling winds of winter time.

Briefly, a scarf supplies the dual benefit of both shielding you against extreme weather conditions, as well as giving you that added sparkle. Another useful point about a scarf is that it can be made at home quite easily and is also not costly. Also silk scarves are beautifully soft and smooth with a natural sheen that really brings the colours to life. Available in a huge range of patterns and colours, silk scarves also make lovely gifts. Cotton is a wonderfully soft and natural fabric that can be made to feel light and airy for summer or warm and cosy for winter. These cotton scarves come a in great choice of patterns, sizes and colours, the customer can find the perfect scarf for your look. Stay warm in style this winter with amazing range of women's winter scarves. Winter scarves includes stylish patterned winter scarves, cosy chenille winter scarves and plain winter scarves that make it easy to brighten up your outfit. With so many to choose from, winter scarves are the perfect way to brighten up grey wintery days. So fashion scarves make it easy to create a gorgeous look and come in a great choice of cool prints.

Spring/ Summer 2012 scarves, stoles and keffiehs are characterized by many new additions.

Firstly the colors. Grey in its hues of asphalt, blackboard or gull grey or the various hues of brown remain the basis for all arrangements, Pyaar’s real essence. At the same time there is space for a storm of intense colors, favoring two color ways: blue in all hues of the air and sky, and brick pink.

Even the sizes have changed: besides enwrapping stoles and ample scarves, it now has slimmer models. 60x180cms, narrower and slender offers new possibilities to create and reinvent, especially for men. Even lighter and softer fabrics: Pyaar’s textile accessories are created from a combination of natural fibers and innovative yarns. The core of the collection is lots of cotton scarves, silk and linen. Modal embeds itself on this ground giving it a soft natural feel. And lastly inserts in metallic fibers brighten up the scarves with flashes of quartz, gold and silver.

The final result are shaded fabrics at times faded with a worn out look; blank sheets to paint and color the various suggestions of the new collection.

BOUQUETS

An explosion of colors, shapes, smells of spring invade and transform the fabrics. It makes way to floral motifs, tiny daisies that deck up with cheerful simplicity, to macroprints of bouquets reminiscent of precious porcelain.

Nature entwines itself with variously inspired decorations. Paislies , a growing novelty in the collection, filled in with roses and countryside flowers becoming real flower beds.

Sinous lines of the arabesque accompany more jovial designs, inviting us to live our fashionable side with a hint of irony.

THE COLORS OF THE WIND

The essence of the summer breeze, that bring to life the etereal fabrics, colors itself and the Pyaars stoles in various shades of blue. From delicate porcelain blu to intense indigo blue, from blue avio to cobalt blue: the various hues entwine and chase each like waves in an ocean. A valuable color card that gives life to precious works of art, with amazing shades, water colors and colorful tonal creations.

PINK TEMPLES

Another color way of this collection is brick pink: the color of temples and cathedrals in India as well as many cities in the South of Italy. The lighter tones of giacarta and powder pink calm the intensity of peony red, in scarves and stoles that are discrete but seductive at the same time. Fabrics that come to life with the strong coral and goose beak tones and hints of ruby red and absolute pink.

Printed textiles

Never before has a volume of such lavishness been devoted to printed textiles, in particular stoles and scarves. Covering the past two centuries, during which the industrial revolution drastically altered textile manufacture, textile designs presents a dazzling, comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration. These are presented by pattern and motif, in contrast to the chronological displays in most books and museums. The dates and countries of origin are supplied wherever known.

This visual encyclopaedia groups textiles by pattern under five headings: floral, geometric, conversational, ethnic, art movements and period styles. Because of the world-wide interest, this edition includes translations of all the pattern names, as well as brief general introductions to the book in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

Textile designs will be indispensable not only to fashion and decoration professionals, but will also be an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for quilt makers and collectors, and a delight for all lovers of the beautiful.

The book of silk scarves tells the rich history of this remarkable material through five millennia, reproducing hundreds of fabrics, furnishings and garments from all parts of the world.

From ancient China, where the secret of reeling silkworm cocoons was first discovered, the narrative leads by the legendary silk routes to byzantium and the Islamic world, to Ottoman Turkey and India - and on to the Renaissance, and the baroque and rococo silks of western Christendom.

In modern times the fashion industry yields a wonderful array of designs,. At every stage, silk's status as the most prized fabric of all ensured that it drew the most creative talents of every period, from anonymous Chinese masters to the celebrated couturiers of France and Italy.

A dazzling selection of illustrations, many drawn from private collections, reveals silk's omnipresence in couture and decoration, scarves, embroidery and even painting. Complete with a detailed reference section that includes terms and technical processes, collecting and care, galleries and museums, and a bibliography, the book of silk scarves will appeal to anyone interested in history, fashion, beauty and textile accessories.

This beautifully illustrated book examines in detail the fascinating symbolism of the motifs and patterns that give life to these traditional textiles from around the world.

The global range is as remarkable as the variety of materials and motifs on display. Each textile – whether Chinese court insignia, Japanese kimono, Sumatran sarong, Turkish napkin, Ghanaian banner, Native American pouch or Peruvian Nasca textile, among others – bears its own distinctive designs.

Books about scarves

Considering that pretty much every woman has at least two or three scarves in her closet there are surprisingly few books available on how to wear scarves, scarf history, and the designers who are famous for producing scarves. Most 'how to wear scarves' books date back to the 1980s or early 90s, and while many of the styles featured are fine, the photos can be painfully dated.

Most general fashion and costume books cover scarves in a single page, however the writer has come across two good books devoted solely to scarves. Both are well worth getting hold of. And as for books on scarf history, well there are a number of books on shawls (and Kashmir and paisley shawls in particularly) but very few indeed on the silk square, the icon of the 20th century.

Another area covered by numerous books is wrapping gifts with stoles - inspired by the Japanese and Korean traditions of using scarves and textile accessories for wrapping and carrying.

Indispensable accessories and sought-after collectors’ items, scarves were an important innovation in 20th-century fashion. From Art Deco through 1950s Hollywood, the Swinging Sixties and beyond, scarves have been represented in every major decorative arts movement over the past century and into the present one.

There is an illustrated compendium showcases the work of a wide range of international designers. Here are more than 250 cotton scarves, beautifully reproduced in colour and all specially photographed, and many never before seen in print.

Includes concise biographies of more than fifty scarf designers, retailers and manufacturers, and a resource guide provides expert advice on dating and conservation, museum collections, vintage fairs and specialist dealers. Indispensable accessories and sought-after collectors items, scarves were an important innovation of 20th-century fashion, and were at the height of their popularity in the 1940s and 1960s. This is the definitive work on scarves in the 20th century, featuring artists designs, important textile designers and designer brands, as well as the wider role of scarves in social history and advertising.

Another book is the fullest and most complete record ever published of fashion accessories throughout the 20th century. More than 2.000 meticulously detailed colour drawings, accompanied by thorough descriptions, reproduce all the century’s archetypal accessories, from the luxurious ostrich-feather and flower-bedecked hat of the Edwardian era to the devoré velvet scarf and ubiquitous trainer of the 1990s.

A reference section contains a comprehensive bibliography and a chart that shows at a glance how these textile accessories have evolved since 1900.

MIPEL – 18-21 September 2011

Launched in 1962, MIPEL is the world’s leading international leather-goods show: bags, luggage, sacks, wallets, stoles and the full spectrum of leather accessories.

MIPEL has always been at the forefront of the industry and in tune with the market. Today, it is the most authoritative trade fair for the leather-goods industry. It is therefore the ideal setting for the companies which focus on product research, marketing strategies and technical innovation as their points of strength.

By evolving into a modern trade show, MIPEL has not only raised its image, it has also created highly successful synergies and partnership solutions with the other top fashion fairs.

The two Mipel shows, in march and september, are held in the futuristic fieramilano trade fair and exhibition complex in Milan, a global fashion and design capital. The two fairs present the autumn-winter collections and the following year’s spring-summer collections, respectively. Mipel provides a unique opportunity for finding out about the trends in bags and leather accessories, which play an increasingly influential role in the evolution of fashion styles. It is also a keenly-awaited occasion for celebrating the creative flair and technical skills of artisans and manufacturers from all over Italy and numerous other countries, for an industry of crucial economic importance.

20,000 trade visitors, 200 accredited journalists, more than 400 exhibitors in three exhibition halls totalling 20,000 square metres. These numbers make Mipel a truly unmissable showcase for professionals in the fashion-accessory industry.

Held together with the most important fashion accessories and fur shows.

A unique opportunity for buyers and professionals in the sector

The exhibition, together with the beginner Mido (wearing glasses from 4 to 6 March) and with Micam (shoes) and Mifur (fur and leather coats), is the flag of ALL-ACCESSories, an entire week dedicated to the accessory (International Fashion Accessories Week) which under one name and in the same dates unifies the world's leader fairs of whatever completes the wearing sector.

An easy living fair with precise themes areas, which allows a logical planning visit, without wasting time and have also moments of relax and relationship.

There is Galleria which hosts well known brands, important names, you can't miss them because of their trends; the glamour area, which involves a medium and high kind of product where "convenience" is the key word; fashion trend and textile accessories trend, where you find a young bag, a summary of fashion and trend. Although, new for this year, besides this area there's a place dedicated to 20 new companies facing for the first time the world of an exhibition proposing a more complete range of accessories and jewelry; startup, for new born companies, potential important brands for the future; overseas where trends and works come from far east coasts.

Further insights:

http://www.mipel.it/index.php/en/

FASHION INDUSTRY

Soft, luxurious, warm, and comfortable, scarves and stole have all the qualities to be coordinated with any outer wear be it sweater, shirt, top or anything for that matter. Universally acknowledged fact, fashion and fashion trends never remain the same. Though once in a while, every trend repeats and rejuvenates itself and exerts its influence on the fashion lovers. The apparel industry is no doubt always stuck in vicious circle which goes on endlessly. Various styles have been adopted in the fashion industry owing to the weather effect, comfort and wear-ability quotient and most of the clothes never remain in vogue forever. However, scarves and stoles have been an integral part of the fashion trends and surprisingly have never been less demanded. Stoles can be an easy way to complete a look.

As the time has progressed, the fashion experts have exerted that scarves and stoles are here to stay owing to their utility and timeless style quotient. Today, there is a number of silk scarves available and in various fabrics, colors and patterns that one can go on raving about their style, comfort and designs. Cotton scarves draw a fairly good revenue on the part of Indian textile industry.

An overview of Indian textile industry India is a country of diversity, where not only different cultures or religions exist but a wide range of textiles as well. India is engaged in the production of a vast range of home furnishings, household linen, curtain tapestry, yardage and so on made of different textures and varying thickness. The industry of India exports a major chunk of versatile fabrics, bed linen, table linen, toilet and kitchen linen, towels, curtains, cushions and pads, tapestries and upholstery's, carpets and floor coverings, etc. to serve the demands of a number of handicraft lovers worldwide.

It has always been an earnest endeavor on our part to provide high quality and eco-friendly products to the world market and we have successfully accomplished the same by adopting various measures and techniques to maintain the ecological balance. In the current situation, the Indian textile industry, producing scarves, is one of the most significant industries in the world. In fact, it is the largest foreign exchange earning sector in the country. Moreover, it provides employment to over 35 million people. With direct linkages to the rural economy and the agriculture sector, it is estimated that one out of every six households in the country depends on this sector, either directly or indirectly, for its livelihood.

FASHION STOLES

Stoles were in fashion for almost a century, from 1780 until the 1870's. Around this time, millions of stoles were woven, embroidered, and also printed in Kashmir, India, Persia, the USA, Europe, Austria, England, Scotland, and of course, Paisley. It was the Kashmir stoles that captivated the imagination of fashionable women and European manufacturers were quick to respond by weaving or printing their own. Kashmir has long been famous for its paisley stoles. In the 18th century, they became so widely popular that merchants from around the world would come to Kashmir just to buy them. Antique-looking paisley-designed wool stoles have a distinct pattern used in construction of the jama, a type of coat worn by men. These stoles are woven on a tooji, which refers to the frame loom where they are woven. The weaver, along with an assistant, uses a talim or set of written instructions for weaving the shawls. This talim will indicate the color and the corresponding number of warp threads that must be covered. The master weaver will then throw the weft back and forth, after which he calls out the pattern or design based on the threads that are woven in. For cleaning paisley woolen stoles, dry cleaning is recommended. For hand washing, cold water must be used. After washing, wring drying is discouraged. They should simply be laid flat to dry. When dry, they can then be ironed with a piece of cloth or paper in between the iron and fabric.

Stoles have become a craze for new generation peoples. The shades, designs and colours are amazing in this fashion stoles. It gives smart and funky looks.

The company is well established and one of the leading prestigious fast developing Indian Export Company. The firm has been producing and distributing all type of scarves, stoles and other fashion accessories in a variety of high quality materials and exclusive designs, in particular silk scarves.

The company trademark is providing a longstanding reputation in providing high quality Scarves, stoles and other fashion accessories for both women and men. In short, the company is providing all type of Art of Scarves, stoles and various types of fashion accessories.

The company, with its vast collection of fashionable designs and delicate workmanship, is a leader amongst Indian companies that offer fashion textile accessories in country traditional style. At present the company is dealing with more than 31 countries all over the world. For all season the company offers a wide-ranging variety of scarves in silk, cotton, wool synthetic and many more.

Wool scarves

Eternally fashionable, scarves make the most versatile textile accessories for women. The available variety of fabrics, shapes and sizes make the scarf ideal for all seasons and occasions.

Tying scarves is simpler than it seems, and various attractive scarf tying techniques are rather easy to learn. As a service to our customers, we have designed this step-by-step scarf tying guide, providing the most common and popular styles when wearing a scarf.

Hand painted silk scarves offer the perfect way to add a touch of elegance and charm to your attire – formal or informal. Our hand painted silk scarves also represent and preserve the dwindling art form of hand painting on silk fabric.

A lot of scarf tying styles use square scarves, though, in order to tie the square scarf into some highly attractive styles, there is often a need to fold one into an oblong shape as a starting point.

The company presents three basic ways to fold a square scarf: straight fold (also called oblong fold), triangle fold, and bias band fold. Some other folding variations, such as the accordion fold, are also commonly known.

The company is one of the leading Indian exporter, manufacturer, wholesaler e supplier of scarves, shawls, ladies stoles, fashion bags, fabrics, sarongs e pareos and various home furnishing items. Fabrics like wool, silk, pashmina, cashmere and viscose are used to manufacture the shawls and scarves in plain, printed and jacquard designs. Incepted in 1988, the company climbed up the ladder of success due to our unswerving commitment and dedication. The company endeavors to offer high quality products that epitomize class and sophistication. The company is known for manufacturing and supplying products that are designed to cater the needs of all international markets.

Traditional wool-lycra stoles are manufactured in ethnic designs, patterns, textures and colors. They are designed with luxurious fiber and provide a soft comfortable warm feel and incredible look.

Wool scarves

Wool scarves are an essential when temperatures drop. Wool is naturally soft, breathable, and warm, perfect for beautiful scarves that protect you from the elements in gorgeous style.

Head scarves

There are many different shapes, styles and colors to fit whatever the customer needs. Hair loss, cancer chemotherapy treatments, surgery, sun protection. Whatever the reason, the customer can find the perfect head covering. Each style will have its own function and physical charm.

Head scarves have many uses and look great. They are also fun to wear. The customer can come up with his own style and matches them with different types of clothes.

SILK SCARVES: FASHION MADE IN ITALY

Established in 1945, this company is one of the leading companies in the market of men and women fashion accessories, in particular silk scarves.

Since its very beginning the basic values of the company development have been creativity, manufacturing know-how, international perspective and management ethic.

Thanks to a highly skilled team of professionals, continuously involved in probing the latest fashion trends, searching new fabrics, developing new gorgeous designs, setting up more and more advanced collections, it is a recognized leader in the fashion accessory industry and a basic component of the "Made in Italy" excellence.

Because of its professionalism and its dedication to cutting-edge creativity and manufacturing, the company is a partner of some of the most popular international fashion brands.

Silk scarves, foulard, shawls, scarves, stoles, bandanas, neckties, ascot, bow-ties are fashion textile accessories that are great promotional items and perfect corporate gifts too. A highly creative and skilled team helps the customers to find the best solutions for any specific requirement.

Hand painted, vibrant silk scarf designs add that extra touch of elegance to women’s casual and business attire. Luxurious silk scarves will supplement customers wardrobe with color, shine and originality.

Each silk scarf or silk wall hanging begins with the artist's original design transferred onto white, 100% silk fabric. Using the Serti silk painting technique, the design is then outlined with resist and painted with high quality, fiber reactive dyes, specially formulated for use on silk. Each piece is steam set to ensure brilliant, permanent colors.

The Serti (closing or fence) technique is the silk painting technique where designs are formed with water-based resists, which are applied to white silk scarves or yardage that has been pre-washed, dried and suspended on a frame. Once the resist has dried, it acts as a barrier for the silk dye, keeping the color within the outlined areas of the design and allowing you to achieve sharply defined borders. Without this barrier, the silk dye would flow into more of an abstract, undefined pattern. After the dye has been steam set, the clear resist is removed and a defining line the color of the original silk fabric remains.

The quilted silk wall hangings are machine stitched using a free motion technique and selected pieces are embellished with beads, crystals and sea shells. The silk scarves and silk wall hangings are available in a variety of design and color variations and at wholesale prices to licensed retailers and custom designs for the scarves are available.

FLASHES OF LIGHTNING, MOROCCAN MOSAICS, CELEBRATIONS AND VOYAGES

Creating a collection of fashion textile accessories in touch with the times and with the modern clients new needs. The brand Pyaar is a project of scarves and stoles created in Italy that works in different markets thanks to its productive collaboration with top Indian companies. It's a mix between the innovative and the traditional, research, eye for fine details and unique craftsmanship.

Today Pyaar can be found in a lot of countries (Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria Germany, Belgium, Nord European countries, Japan, Australia) in multi brand boutiques, department stores and multi concept stores; all of which have clients that follow very closely the evolution of fashion, and very cultured, and very independent in their choice of the elements that compose their look.

Blue and grey flashes of lightning accompanied by pearl pinks and water green are the protagonists of the Pyaar Summer 2011 scarves and stoles. Carefree multiethnic designs that intertwine in our textile accessories invent an unlimited collection. The liberty to mix cotton scarves and cotton scarves, printed or embroidered, simple or embellished with tassels emphasizes a style out of the ordinary.

THE BEST SELLERS OF THE SPRING / SUMMER COLLECTION 2011

SUMMER TRAMP

The protagonists of Pyaar summer are pearl pink and teal green that create the holiday atmosphere. Carefree multiethnic designs combined in different ways to create an unlimited collection; timeless and with no fixed abode.

FLASHES OF LIGHTNING FOR THE BASIC COLLECTION

Glimpses of light, like a night of shooting stars brighten the basic collection. Metallic fibers woven along with linen, cotton silk and wool scarves by able hands of Indian craftsmen create innovative textures.

A MAGHREBINE TOUCH FOR THE SPORTY COLLECTION

The attractiveness of the geometric Moroccan mosaics is impelling, ideas borrowed from the close East enriches the global spirit of Pyaar. For scarves sand sportive accessories Pyaar chooses to combine different layers in order to create new striped and checked designs.

THE CHEERFUL SPIRIT OF THE FEMININE SCARVES

Parties in the countryside or in the open, inspire the designs and colors of the feminine scarves with their cheerful and carefree spirit; an expression of the lighter and cheekier spirit of Pyaar. The textures and designs that decorate the fabric are an expression of a return to mother nature.

“ON THE ROAD” KEFIEH‘S

The liberty to mix and match big and small kefieh’s, printed or embroidered, simple or adorned with tassels. An unconventionalstyle wandering and following in the footsteps of Kerouac.

PYAAR MEANS LOVE: A COLLECTION OF TEXTILE ACCESSORIES THAT BLENDS ITALIAN DESIGN WITH INDIAN CULTURE

In Hindi “pyaar“ means “love”: a word that is a melting pot of various passions, various spirits, each with its own distinguishing characteristics. The experience of the brand Pyaar revolves exactly around this symbolism of the word, where multiple professional expertise are used together in order to create textile accessories that represent the spirit of a new world without boundaries where cultures far and wide blend together.

Therefore, Pyaar is the creative expression of a positive experience of globalization created more that 20 years back. In fact the brand, that’s just a few seasons old, refers to RADIOAFRICA, which is part of GRUPPO TRIADE owned by Walter Magnano and based in Volvera on the outskirts of Turin. A young but experienced entrepreneur in the textile industry, Mr. Magnano manufactures, like many others in the Italian textile industry, for the most important clothing companies and brands Made in Italy but with one distinguishing factor: the curiosity to look beyond, to discover new limits, experiment innovative solutions, involving people from different worlds.

“I have never stood still - explains Walter Magnano- I have travelled all over the world exploring new places and different realities, which were very creative and used unique techniques for production. With the passing of time I realized that these different realities not necessarily needed to remain simple suppliers, but could participate actively in designing and creating new products each with a story of its own, a cultural syncretism that is not only a new frontier for creativity and productiveness but for all of us.

Mr.Magnano’s journeys abroad, especially those in India, kindled the idea of creating his own brand; a brand that could meld two different spirits : the Italian design and savoir faire, endowed with a deep knowledge of the product and market, and the technical and creative capacities of the Indian continent. Many Indians work with Mr. Magnano in his offices in Turin and he has very close contacts with his producers in India. This mutual exchange has given birth to very special creations that are to be discovered and appreciated.

Pyaar represents an accessory, the scarves, the stoles and its similars, common to all seasons and genders that easily complete different kinds of clothing, easy chic, soft, sophisticated but never too stiff nor too structured. Its not an article for fashion victims but for those who love fabrics, designs, the feel and want to create his very own look with good taste, joy, passion, in one word with Pyaar, with “love”, which is recognizable from its trade mark, a small metallic heart on one corner of the scarf.

Beautiful Silk Scarves to Jazz Up Your Life!

Few fashion textile accessories can add style as easily and affordable as the silk scarf.

Using silk scarves, you will be able to add a certain flair to your wardrobe for scarves for women that makes you stand out from the crowd. It is the dream of every woman to have the perfect wardrobe consisting of an endless array of clothes that get replenished every season.

In the past the only reason to wear a scarf would be as protection against the inclement weather. It would be something thick woolly and no particularly attractive.

As fashion evolved women came to realize that it was possible to wear them just for the beauty of it. Simple silk scarves knotted casually around the neck helps to show off a sleeveless dress on a spring day. And when going for a drive in a convertible with the top down it was an absolute must to tie a scarf over the hair to preserve the hairstyle during the drive. There are as many uses to a silk scarf in your wardrobe as there are stars in the sky.

Whether dressing casually or formally, day or night there will be a way to incorporate this versatile item into your outfit. Because it’s so simple there is no need for stylists or magazine articles to advise you on how to wear it. Just as every woman has her unique sense of style she expresses through her wardrobe she will find ways to wear a scarf that reflect this. More casual dressers who favor bohemian chic are more likely to tie it loosely over the shoulders or perhaps as a playful hair band.

Ladies who are in the corporate field have found that a pastel coloured scarf helps to break the monotony of dull business suits. There is also a wide range of women's cotton scarves. Even a subtle floral print worn under a shift dress and matching jackets helps to add an element of feminine elegance. So power dressing does not mean having to sacrifice womanly touches like that. The moral of the story is that there are from every walk of life, a way to wear shawls and wraps in pashmina that complements your style and shows off your natural charms. There is no limit to the different looks that can be created from a simple square scarf. Let your imagination take you to a fashion wonderland.