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| 1799-1869:
the succession of monarchs and the Jacquard technique |
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This is the period of development of all types
of materials, thanks to perfecting weaving through the Jacquard technique.
Striped or smooth or manufactured piqués, satins, valuable
light silks, pekins, in delicate and light colours, white, light blue,
light green. Under the regency of Carolina Bonaparte, San Leucio factories
continue their production through technical innovations by Wallin
and Maranda (from the Piemonte region) and the French Pierre Maugras.
Carolina furnishes her Villa in Portici with San Leucio materials,
the Royal Palace of Caserta, the royal boxes at the San Carlo, Fondo
and Fiorentini theatres. Also the white taffeta veils used to decorate
the curtains of the numerous royal buildings come from San Leucio.
The silk is still today part of the furnishing of those magnificent
buildings. Maria Cristina Savoy continued to protect with passion
the silk manufacture of San Leucio in order to satisfy the needs of
the Royal Palace. A long crisis for San Leucio silk was due to the
events preceding the unity of Italy. The standstill lasted until 1869,
when Cesare Pascal starts again the production under the new regime.
In the second half of 1800 another production, typical of San Leucio,
affirms itself: the blanket. Marvellous one-shuttle damask materials
of big dimensions: 30.000 organzine threads and 10.000 weft-spun threads,
with the most beautiful colours. The blanket became the dream of every
bride and the proud of every family from Southern Italy and the two
Americas.
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Virtual tour in San Leucio |
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