LINEAPELLE HIGHLIGHTS – SUMMER 17 LEATHER AND FABRICS
The last Lineapelle fair was one of the best editions with regards to leather innovative techniques.
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FABRIC/ SYNTHETICS
- Innovative and beautiful cotton bonded with thin cut wood
- Rubber printing fabric
- Cotton and linen textures with soft and smooth washing; treatments are no longer tough and strong; dusty colours and even surfaces
- Washed iridescent fabric
- Denim, jacquard fabric
- Metal effect denims
- 3D technical fabric
- Several iridescent and luminescent effects, glitter, elegant details on fabric surfaces.
LEATHER
- Fluorescent colors normally used in the sneaker world are shown on leather, such as nappa and calf, also with patent leather finishing
- Back to soft patent leather with several effects: relief pois, small geometric pattern
- Back to nappa for apparel
- Goat patent leather and goat boarded leather
- Several technical printings, very close to Street Style (chic and sport urban), on deep colour and good quality leather, coming from synthetic / rubberized materials.
- Bonded leather that looks like a 3D net.
- Three-dimensional effect on leather with texture on surfaces; refined colours and quality
- Back to vegetable or semi-vegetable tanned leather
- Natural grain on calf skin,
- Brush-off with light colors, aniline effect
- Suede split made with white tannage: an excellent starting point for ink-jet drawings and fluorescent, bright colours
- Small printing, medium grain patterns printed twice.
- Elegant and sophisticated floral, soft hands touch; beautiful nubuck with pastel, natural colours
- On the whole close attention to leather bases to develop ink-jet patterns
- Several iridescent and luminescent effects, glitter, elegant details on leather surfaces
- Plenty of boarded leather on top quality leather
- Lots of laminated and metallized leather even with fluid metal effect
- Laminated brush-off leather
- Snake skin with different effects: metal powders and patent skin “crystal” effect
- Snake skin painting effect.
