Is Velvet Vegan? How To Identify If It’s Vegan Or Not! – Marta Canga
Velvet is soft, moves wonderfully and has been a staple in my wardrobe for man years. Soft and silky, yes. Now, is it vegan? To answer the question, I must tell answer is not an easy yes or no. Keep on reading if you want to find out why!
1. What Is Velvet?
Let’s start by putting it this way: you have velvet for fashion and velvet for home for fashion is not historically vegan! Velvet is actually the combination of sil woven into two layers. The cut threads are evenly distributed and this techniq back to the 1.000 AC, in Northern Africa. That’s what makes it expensive and den is the real velvet, folks! Not what you find in the high street, which is usually ma cotton or synthetic materials. So if you find a piece of fashion that contains velvet, above £100, chances are that it contains silk!
2. How to identify vegan velvet?
Thankfully, we nowadays can find synthetic and natural fabrics that can replace t for silk. This makes velvet much more affordable and you only need to r manufacturer’s label to understand where your textile is from. Cotton-blended ski dresses are easy to find, but you’ll often find velvety materials made from lyocell polyester, or nylon, without any of the cruelty.
Velvet for the home tends to be always vegan. Silk, although it decomposes organi not a very durable material per se. So most of the velvet sofas you have sat on a keep sitting on will probably be vegan. Synthetic materials are just more durable i of cleanliness, tearing and ripping apart, and colour fades quicker too.
3. Vegan Velvet Shoes: Da Quy
Vegan-friendly velvet alternatives? YES! I want to talk about an Italian vega company called Da Quy, who kindly sent me this pair of shoes to show you that a is possible in becoming more animal and eco-friendly.
Da Quy is a vegan shoe company based in Italy. They have been approved by th Society and none of the shoes use animal components, including the glue.
Founder Erica Ramilli created the brand with the intention to make vegan fashionable. The shoes are designed and crafted in Italy. ‘Da Quy’ means ‘precious in Vietnamese, thus referring to simple but precious vegan shoes. Their shoes ar for conscious consumers who do not want to compromise on aesthetics, offering shoes for the compassionate fashionista!
Today I am wearing the Angelite Moccasins in Blue Velvet.
Angelita is the name of a blue stone, with its main feature being to gift peace and s
he shoes are made in vegan velvet, from polyester and cotton fabric, and the made with coria, which is a material created with rubber and resin.
This model is probably the most comfortable pair of shoes I own. Soft and delicat vegan moccassins are perfect for those who live in flats but refuse not to be st picked mine in dark blue, as I thought it would match most of the colours of my clo
Did you actually know that velvet wasn’t vegan? I only found out recently and was shocked! I’m glad that there are vegan brands out there who actually make go