Filament & Rêve
Silk Atelier · Suzhou & Lyon
MANIFESTO
Silk Atelier · Est. 1962 · Suzhou & Lyon

Filament
& Rêve

Woven from silence.

Silk thread
Material Provenance

A single thread.
One valley.

Our silk originates exclusively from the sericulture farms of the Tai Lake basin in Suzhou — a region producing filament of a quality unobtainable elsewhere. The mulberry trees are centuries old. The silkworms feed on nothing else. The water that sets the thread comes from a single tributary that has not changed course in four hundred years.

The thread arrives at our Lyon atelier raw, and is transformed over eight weeks by hands that have spent decades in the trade. There is no shortcut in this process. There is no alternative.

Thread Source
Tai Lake, Suzhou
Weave Atelier
Lyon, France
Thread Grade
6A Mulberry
Annual Yield
1,200 metres
1962
Year Founded
6A
Thread Grade
8 Wk
Weaving Cycle
3 Gen
Family Lineage
The Expressions

Six silks.
One hand.

Charmeuse
Charmeuse · 19 Momme
La Nuit Douce
Suzhou thread · Lyon woven
Satin-weave Charmeuse
The lightest thing that holds warmth. A fabric that remembers the body and returns to stillness.
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Dupioni
Dupioni · 22 Momme
L'Écorce
Double-filament · Raw texture
Raw Dupioni
The friction of two threads claiming the same space. Structured, deliberate, unapologetic.
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Habotai
Habotai · 8 Momme
Le Souffle
Plain weave · Near-weightless
Plain Habotai
You will not know you are wearing it. That is the point. The absence of weight is its statement.
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Crepe de Chine
Crêpe de Chine · 16 Momme
Le Froissement
Twisted warp · Matte finish
Crêpe de Chine
Controlled disorder. The crêpe holds movement and releases it — a restless calm in fabric form.
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Jacquard
Jacquard · 40 Momme
Le Songe
Figured weave · Bespoke patterns
Figured Jacquard
The loom as a writer. Each pattern is unique to a commission — never repeated, never archived.
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Bespoke
Commission · From First Thread
Votre Fil
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Bespoke Commission
You choose the weight, the weave, the width. We choose the hands. Together: something that did not exist before.
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We do not ask silk to be impressive. We ask it to be true. True to the mulberry leaf that fed the worm. True to the water that guided the thread. True to the hands that turned the loom. When a garment made from Filament & Rêve rests against the skin, it carries the weight of none of this — and the memory of all of it.

Maison Filament & Rêve · Since 1962
The Silks

Know your thread.

Fabric
Charmeuse

A satin-weave silk with a luminous front surface and a matte reverse. The most intimate fabric in the atelier — it reads body temperature and adapts. 19-momme weight is the benchmark; lighter feels insubstantial, heavier loses the drape.

Weave Structure 4:1 Satin float
Standard Weight 19 Momme
Surface Quality Glossy face / Matte reverse
Best For Evening wear, lingerie, blouses
Atelier
Portrait & Provenance

Three generations.
One method.

"We do not teach the loom. We teach the ear — to listen to the thread."

The Moreau family has operated the Lyon atelier since 1962. Each generation has trained under the previous. No pattern has ever been transferred to software. The jacquard programmes exist on punch cards, stored in a cedar cabinet that has not been opened by anyone outside the family.

I Gen
Élise Moreau — Founded the atelier, 1962. Trained under the last of the Lyon silk merchants.
II Gen
Jacques Moreau — Established the Suzhou sourcing relationship, 1988. Added jacquard capacity.
III Gen
Céline Moreau — Current Maîtresse d'Atelier. Introduced the bespoke commission programme, 2014.
From the Journal

"The Tai Lake district produces silk in a quantity you could measure in hectares. We measure ours in moments — the three mornings each year when the first-harvest cocoons are ready and the air in the reeling room smells of nothing we can name."

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Commission

Begin a conversation.

For bespoke commissions — a garment, a length of fabric, a jacquard pattern made exclusively for you. We receive a maximum of twelve commissions per season. Each begins with a conversation, not a form.