Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word velvety means "smooth like velvet". Historically, velvet was typically made from silk. Today, velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends.
Weave details visible on a purple-colored velvet fabric
Velvet with Medici arms, Florence or Venice, 1440–1500
A cope in pile-on-pile velvet
Ciselé
Catanzaro, also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabria.
Ponte Morandi
Villa Margherita
Matteotti Square (Piazza Matteotti)