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Hand embroidery
The celebrated hand-embroidered tablecloths are central to
the Noël collections. These masterpieces of the art of embroidery are decorated
with the most famous motifs from the 13,000 designs in the company's archives
: rosebuds, ears of wheat, mimosa, oranges and lemons, ferns, lilies and thistles,
ivy, geraniums...
Hand embroidery also demands meticulous preparation. The original
motifs, drawn on finely perforated tracing paper, are stenciled onto the linen,
cotton or organdie, then embroidered by expert fingers. This highly skilled, painstaking
work has much in common with Haute Couture.
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An archive of 13,000 designs : a constant source of inspiration
Noël's embroidery motifs are drawn from the inexhaustible archives
maintained by the company since 1883 (more than 13,000 designs, thousands of carefully
rolled-up tracings in all sizes for all compositions, ready to be used).
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A constant source of inspiration, these designs need only a little reworking to bring them absolutely up-to-date. The delicacy of the drawing, the exactness of the proportions, the subtlety of the color schemes are quite extraordinary.
Hunting scenes, geometric patterns of art deco or more contemporary inspiration, heavy bunches of grapes, oak leaves in autumnal hues, fruits and flowers, rosebuds, ears of wheat, mimosa, oranges and lemons, ferns, lilies and thistles, ivy, geraniums - all seem ready to take shape before our eyes.
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Never for a moment departing from its tradition of quality and exclusivity, Noël is now producing a stream of new designs for collections of bed linen, table linen, towels or T -shirts.
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Among the most recent examples is "Constellation", a tablecloth
embroidered with two thousand stars, which was designed by Annabelle d'Huart in
celebration of the new millennium. Meanwhile, motifs of squirrels, dolphins and
chickens animals which decorated the bibs created by Noël in the 1930s have
been updated for today's babies, and now feature on the bibs and teddy bears in
the "Bebe Noël" collection.
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The legend of Noël...
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