Our Story
The art of weaving your memories
A weaving mill in Chieri, running since 1954, and an engine that translates your photos and drawings into the language of the loom: your most treasured images become textiles.
Chieri, since 1954
Your textiles are made in Chieri, in Piedmont, a town that has been weaving for centuries. Here, in 1954, Giacinto Navone founded the mill that is now Tessitura Artistica Chierese, run by Andrea and Claudio Navone, the family's third generation.
The mill works on industrial jacquard looms and developed the Rainbow Jacquard technique: a few base-colour wefts that, interlaced, give back an image full of shading.
Ordito.art adds the preview engine: you upload the photo, see how it will be woven with that product's threads, and only then order.
Ordito.art is a project by CATS S.R.L., based in Milano: we build the preview engine and prepare the loom files, Tessitura Artistica Chierese does the weaving.
Our values
What you will find in every piece
Woven, not printed
The design comes from coloured threads crossing each other, not from ink laid on the surface.
One piece at a time
Every order starts from a file prepared just for your photo. There is almost always someone dear behind it, and we know it.
Made to order
Every piece is woven after you order: no stockpile, no unsold goods.
See it first
Before you order, you see a preview of how your image will be woven, with that product's threads.
From photo to loom
Your image becomes a file for the loom: for every point of the design it says which coloured thread must rise to the face of the fabric.
The jacquard loom lifts the warp threads one by one, pass after pass, and the image takes shape as they interlace with the weft.
We weave in Chieri and only to order: every piece is made for the person who asked for it.