Louise Marel , is the combination of the name of 3 women of different generations, grandmother, mother and daughter. Love for the fabric goes beyond what our eyes come from, and because we are coming to an age of light, brightness and celebration, we start by talking about various curiosities, so when we look at a fabric, whatever it is, we know its history.
Today we’re going to talk about Sequins
A Sequin or Lentejoula originated in Latin (“lenticula root lentil), is an ornament in the form of small discs, for decorating clothes and fashion accessories. They are manufactured in a wide variety of colors and geometric shapes.
However, the current factories differentiate sequin from sequins by their shapes: the sequin has the hexagonal shape and the sequin is totally smooth. In addition the sequin is always a circular disc and the sequin can be presented in other ways with e.g. square, flower, etc.
Another difference is that the sequin always has the hole in the center and the sequin can have the hole at the tip, facilitating the seam.
A fabric embroidered with sequins is named “sequin” from the French pailleté.
LANTEJOLA originated before 2500 BC
The Name Sequin=Sequin(English)=Sikka (Arabic), means currency, and served to embellish the clothes of kings and queens, and also to adorn the clothes of traveling Gypsies, such coins were sewn into clothes to designate wealth and status, nothing was there for nothing. In other cultures they also served to ward off evil spirits, and also to evoke the light of the Divine.They say that even Leonardo da Vinci wanted to create a sequin-laying machine, but this did not happen.
But it was in the U.S. at the beginning of the last century that sequins made of plastic were industrialized and marketed, initially serving to adorn clothes from Broadway’s skewers, producing 6 million sequins a day worldwide.
Who does not remember the famous red shoes of the wizard of OZ, the iconic Michael Jackson who wore and abused these shiny pieces, which was practically his trademark.
Nowadays it is part of fashion, whether in music, theater, cinema, show, reflects brightness and splendor and we always have a piece in our wardrobe
For those who have a more moderate profile balances the pieces of brightness ace neutral, for those who do not risk can adopt the accessories , but if you want to use shine from head to toe is in your right, after all this goes to the taste of each.