Gold & Silver Thread

Most metallic thread is an illusion. It is a coloured film wrapped around a synthetic core, or a base metal — copper, brass — flashed with a whisper of gold that dulls, darkens and flakes the first time the cloth is worn or washed. It photographs well and lasts a season. The House uses none of it.

Its gold and silver are pure metal, bonded directly onto the fibre itself — no plating, no adhesive, nothing hidden beneath. Swiss made, in the sense those two words carry on the back of a watch: a mark of guarantee, not a place on a label. It exists nowhere else.

The gold is twenty-four karat, laid straight onto the yarn. Because there is no lesser metal underneath to oxidise up through the surface, it does not tarnish or grey. It can be washed without hesitation and holds its light for the entire life of the piece — the reason ordinary gold thread ages badly is precisely the thing this thread does not have.

The silver is worked the same way: one hundred percent pure, drawn onto the fibre with a purity no other method achieves, carrying silver's own quiet virtues — a cool, noble sheen, and a natural resistance that keeps the cloth fresh far longer than fibre alone.

Both are drawn fine enough to weave. This is thread, not decoration — the metal lives inside the cloth rather than sitting upon it. It is the difference between a garment that glitters and one that, turned to the light, simply seems to hold light of its own. Gold and silver of a kind made nowhere else.