Bed
Woven into satin: the whole of the bed collections, Essential to Colette.
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Birch, drawn into cloth.
The house's fibre begins as a tree in the certified forests of northern Europe and becomes thread through a cellulose process that keeps faith with the wood and with the land that grew it. What survives the passage is the point: the forest is still in the hand.
Smooth and fluid on the skin like silk, more breathable and easier to live with: it is in everything on these pages.
The method
The source, the fibre, the yarn, the cloth: one material, four moments. Between the tree and the cloth runs a single, unbroken care, kept for the cloth as much as for the land: the restraint that leaves the forest standing is the same that preserves the nature of the fibre, and the nature of the fibre is the quality of the cloth, its smoothness, its breath, its lasting hand.
Sustainability measures
Certified at the source, accountable at the end. Every claim here can be checked: the forests carry their certifications, the savings are measured against comparable yarns under independent standards, and when its work is done the fibre returns to the ground it came from. The figures below say the rest.
- FSC and PEFC certified forests · EU Ecolabel
- Roughly half the carbon and half the water of comparable yarns — Higg MSI v.3.91
- Life Cycle Assessment under ISO 14040/44: up to 71% lower global warming potential, up to 68% lower fossil fuel depletion, up to 68% lower water consumption, up to 35% lower eutrophication than equivalent fibres
- Biodegradable in soil, water, marine, industrial and home compost
The tree of new beginnings
The birch is the first tree to return. After fire, after clearing, it takes root in bare earth and readies the soil for the forest that follows. The old north countries planted it at thresholds and carved it into cradles, the tree of beginnings. A fibre could ask for no better origin.
One fibre, many natures
The fibre takes the nature of its use: coolness where the body sleeps, absorbency where it bathes, warmth where wool joins it. A different answer in every room.
Plaids
With wool at seventeen per cent, for warmth.
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Blended with cotton in two terry weights, 450 and 500 grams the square metre.
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The closest contact of all: satin worn on the skin, breathing with the body.
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Satin for the bed, terry for the bath, made for the newborn.
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The story of the house continues at BELTRAMI.IT.