Aluminium Lame Stripe

Used paper was slit into strips and woven into fabrics in ancient Japan.
During the Showa period (19th Century) a new kind of slit yarn was produced by vacuum-coating slit yarn with aluminum. Later, the American invention of polyester was used as a base. This same technique is now used in Japan in the manufacture of audio tapes, a dominant industry.

NUNO applied this technique to produce colored metal Lame from a nylon slit yarn coated with aluminum. Compared with polyester, nylon provides a much greater range of possible colors, so that we can produce brass or bronze, as well as the traditional silver and gold Lame.
Yarn is slit from a plastic film, coated with metallic fibres during a vacuum process. Thanks to modern technologies, the body of each fabric is soft, with a distinct metallic lustre.

Composition: Nylon 50%, Polyester 50%
Weave: Plain Weave
Width: 110 cm
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