Discover What Makes Chenille Feel the Way It Does
Chenille takes its name from the French for caterpillar, and the description is literal: short lengths of fibre are trapped at right angles in a twisted core yarn, producing a soft, fuzzy strand that is then woven into cloth. That construction is why chenille feels velvety in the hand whilst remaining a woven fabric rather than a cut pile. This is a large-structured chenille, meaning the yarn is thick and the weave open enough to see, giving the surface a pronounced ribbed relief instead of the flat nap of a fine chenille.
Made from two-tone recycled polyester, the cloth also gains something from its fibre. Polyester chenille resists the crushing and abrasion that flatten natural-fibre pile at the front edge of a seat, and it holds colour under daylight far longer. The recycled content is sourced from a Global Recycled Standard certified supplier, reducing the pull on virgin material, and the finished textile carries OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 certification. Warm to the touch in winter and never cold like leather, it is a sensible cover for a chair used at every meal.