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 2000 years have elapsed since our earliest records of velvets velvety among the persians and east indians from the arabs the art of velvet we weaving a ving went to the spaniards then to sicily a and n d in th the e 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 velvety vel vets first heavy thick velvets velvety were made later finer types of velvets velvety known as lyons then chiffon velvets velvety and after that the slenderizing slender izing draping material known as transparent velvet |