Residence Fine Furniture in Waterloo is now offering clients a unique range of horsecloth fabrics from Centaur.
The horsecloth fabrics combine beauty and lustre with the more practical benefits of durability and ease of care, making them ideal for a wide range of interior design and furnishing applications in residential or commercial settings.
There are over 100 variations of colour including vibrant red, gold, blue and green, style including sateen and damask, and pattern including tabby’s, twills and stripes in the standard range.
All are available in widths from 55 to 70cms and lengths from 5 to 30 meters. The horsecloth fabrics can also be woven to meet a client’s individual design, pattern and colour requirements with a minimum order of only 30 meters required.
In addition Residence Fine Furniture offers customers horsecloth covered seats on any of their extensive range of beautifully hand crafted dining and easy chairs in woods that include rosewood, American mahogany and teak.
Horsecloth, which was first used in Europe as long ago as the 17th century, is made from the tails of live working horses mainly from Argentina, Russia, Mongolia and China. The fabric is produced by weaving the treated hair as the weft (cross fibre) into either cotton, silk, or occasionally synthetic warp (long fibre).
Horses’ tails regrow so the hair can be harvested up to five times during its lifetime, without harm to the horse, while tail hair from dead horses cannot be used, as it is too brittle and cannot be dyed.