Size and fabrics guide

MATERIALS AND WORKMANSHIP

The art of making the tabarro follows precise manufacturing rules that respect the dictates of ancient textile composition, enhancing the sartorial beauty of a completely handmade product.

Six meters of fabric are needed to make a long full-circle tabarro. They are cut in pairs, circling around a table, and then joined together with a single seam. The fabric is cut raw (if hemmed at the bottom it becomes a cloak), as tradition dictates, without a hem thanks to the broken twill weave, the most used for compact tabarro fabrics.

Made with carded wool, the fabrics – the weight cannot drop below 390-400 gr/m² – are the result of research on specifications from old wool mills as well as from our archive of tabarri dating from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. The colors offered are predominantly black and gray, as tradition requires. All collars are made using horsehair canvas as an internal reinforcement sewn according to a principle that allows the neck to gain consistency without losing movement, making it non-deformable.
The silver mascheroni – the hooks that keep it closed – and the collar in silk, ecological astrakhan, or velvet, complete the garment.

TYPES OF FABRICS AND COMPOSITIONS

FENICE

100% cashmere.

PANNO NOBILE

Cloth with a mix of fine wools in broken twill weave, 2/20,000 thread count weft and 1/15,000 warp, 460 gr/m², composition 100% pure virgin wool with water-repellent finish.

VELOUR LORO PIANA

Satin weave from 4, 1/11,000 thread count weft
and warp, 390 gr/m², 100% superfine wool.

PANNO PASTORE – ART. PIAVE

Cloth with a mix of rustic wools in broken twill weave 1/6,500 in weft and warp, 535-545 gr/m², composition 100% pure virgin wool.

PANNO LAGUNA

One of the most used cloths, weft with broken twill mix, 400-410 gr/m², 1/9,000 thread count
weft and warp, composition 80% Pure Virgin Wool 20% PA, with water-repellent treatment.