Patchwork: When fashion mends
The History of Patchwork
Patchwork is an art, dating from the beginning of civilization, which consists of assembling several pieces of fabric to form a single piece.
The oldest patchworks come from ancient Egypt or India. It appears in the United States from the 17th century where it will be used to repair clothes, sheets, or even sackcloth.
It is such a neat and refined technique that in the 19th century, several patchwork works were passed on as heritage, along with other precious objects.
In France, patchwork became more democratic only in 1970 when, in addition to being a useful and economical process, it also became artistic and decorative.
An Ancestral Know-How Still Current
The assembly of these different fabric inserts allows an original and sophisticated fabric combining ancestral know-how and current trend.
It testifies to a real evolution between the patchwork at its origin, used to repair, to preserve a state and the patchwork of today synonymous with art, fashion and aesthetics.
We Make Our Own Patchwork
Our patchwork pieces are made one by one, by hand and in an artisanal way in our own workshop, in Europe. Our fabrics come from all over the world.
The assembly of these different fabric inserts allows an original and sophisticated fabric combining ancestral know-how and current trend.
Our Patchwork Clothing
Our house has designed and made several pieces in patchwork such as vests, made in patchwork of denim, seersucker or even linen. The rendering of a patchwork piece is never the same, each garment is unique because even if the fabric used is the same, the assembly itself can never be completely similar. This is also what makes all the originality of this type of confection.
On the right, it is a patchwork of Japanese and Italian fabrics dyed with natural indigo, it testifies to the gaiety and the coastal and Basque spirit which is the very essence of (L'EGOÏSTE). On the left is a patchwork of denim.
Madras Fabric Patchwork
We also made this vest in a patchwork of madras fabric. Originally, the Madras fabric originated in India, in a city of the same name as this textile, in the 17th century. It is made of a multitude of tiles, each more colorful than the other. It will appear in the West Indies where it is highly appreciated and worn by the Creole population.
Originally, it was made using banana tree threads that were dyed. Today, it's 100% cotton, but we made ours in cotton and linen for even more lightness.
Wearing a handmade patchwork garment,
it is to wear a piece as unique as it is original.
