Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua in Venice

Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua’s historic headquarters at Santa Croce 1320 houses its showroom and shop. The exhibition room and eighteenth-century wooden looms share a building with the weaving workshop.^[1,2,3,4]

The Tessitura produces furnishing and fashion fabrics, including velvets, damasks, lampases and brocatelles. It still hand-weaves soprarizzo velvet on eighteenth-century looms.^[5,6]

The shop is open Monday to Friday, 09:30–13:30 and 14:30–16:30. Saturday visits are by appointment; the shop is closed on Sunday. A visit to the weaving workshop requires advance reservation. Contact the Tessitura at +39 041 72 15 66 or bevilacqua@luigi-bevilacqua.com to arrange one.^[1,2]

Take vaporetto lines 1, 5.1 or 5.2 to Riva de Biasio. Taxi arrivals can use the Grand Canal access beside the Giudice di Pace.^[1,2]

At Bevilacqua’s Santa Croce address, showroom and historic weaving workshop are close but have different access. The showroom welcomes visitors, while workshop visits require an appointment. The textile offer includes velvets, brocatelles, lampases and damasks; a swatch macro can teach the visible surface difference better than one room-wide hero. A photograph cannot establish fibre or exact weave mechanism without a specimen record, so label the fabric itself.^[1]

• Showroom: inspect labelled current fabric samples.
• Workshop: request the maker’s actual appointment terms.
• Image: pair one identified swatch surface with the relevant real loom or production stage.