Show in a velvet gown it is a far cry from the arabs at el custade near cairo to the looms of velvet on this continent says the montreal herald more than 2 years have elapsed since our earliest records of velvets among the persians and east in deans from the arabs the art of velvet weaving went to the span lards then to sicily and in the sixteenth century into france where it developed under the skill of the most creative and intelligent hand looms to power looms to meet the volume of demand the process of weaving has gone on velvet is woven in two pieces at a time face to face and cut with a knife afterward leaving a straight erect pile the test of all pile velvets first heavy thick velvets were made later finer types of velvets known as lyons then chiffon velvets and after that the slenderizing draping material known as trans parent velvet |