Rubelli

Established in Venice in 1889, the family-run company now in its fifth generation, designs, creates, and produces high quality furnishing products, in particular fabrics. Rubelli is emblematic of the extraordinary expertise of Italian fabric designers and textile artisans, using traditional techniques to produce hand-made fabrics as well as innovative technology for more sophisticated textiles. Their stunning collections include luxury fabrics such as damask, velvet, brocade, and silk. Rubelli fabrics are found in the most exclusive private homes, international hotels, private yachts and cruise ships, world-renowned theatres, castles and museums in the world.

The fifth Rubelli generation is now managing the company, and as they did generations ago, they set the trends in the world of textiles. The company is known for its rich history of fabric production and has become an integral part of Venice’s heritage. While its identity is firmly grounded in its rich history and tradition, this is a history in which the company has continuously set new trends and broken with established barriers. The process of creating the Rubelli collections is born of a constant search for new sources of inspiration, drawn from the historical archive or company library, which is augmented over time through new and ongoing acquisitions.

Rubelli monitors the entire production process thanks to its style department in which designers with technical, artistic and historic skills work, as well as its own mill in Cucciago, near Como. The creation of top-end fabrics inevitably involves the production side. On the one hand, there is modern, innovative and hi-tech equipment, with 28 latest-generation electronic jacquard looms used to produce fabrics with both natural and synthetic fibres: flame-retardant, high-performing, for indoor and outdoor use. On the other hand, there is historical personality, keeper of the ancient textile tradition, which conserves four precious handlooms from the late 18th century, in perfect working order. Installed in the area dedicated to the weaving museum workshop, these historic looms were salvaged and restored to working order in 2004.

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