At Petitjean Paris, our silk accessories are printed and manufactured in the Lyon region. We chose 100% French manufacturing because we are passionate about French textile know-how and we wanted to contribute to its influence.
The expertise of Lyon's silk manufacturers is also a guarantee of high-quality products and a rich heritage that has been passed down from generation to generation for several centuries. Here are the manufacturing secrets of our Made in France silk scarves and accessories.
Lyon silk: an ancestral tradition
For centuries, Lyon's artisan weavers have worked alongside the region's textile finishers to create dyed fabrics, jacquards, brocades, and more recently, printed silks.
We work with a prestigious textile finishing workshop established in the Lyon region for over a hundred years and specializing in silk. In the heart of the Loire countryside, this workshop prints our designs on large silk panels, using high-precision tools that allow us to reproduce every detail of our prints. Certified as an "Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant" (EPV - Living Heritage Company), it is one of the rare French companies to obtain this recognition for excellence in artisanal and industrial know-how.
Our 75 Bois Enchanté Scarf, 100% silk.
Eco-responsible production
It is important for us to be precise in the printing of our designs, but it is even more important to guarantee the quality of the inks used during this printing because our accessories will be in contact with your skin for most of their life. Tucked into your neck, tied to your wrist, our accessories should absolutely be 100% safe.
A pioneer in an industry known to be polluting – dyeing – our textile finisher has made environmental respect a priority for years. Their efforts were rewarded in 2015 when they obtained ISO 14001 certification – a standard that frames the environmental performance of a workshop (or factory), rarely granted in dyeing.
Furthermore, our textile finishing workshop only works with suppliers who certify their inks and dyes. This effort has earned them the OEKOTEX label: a label that guarantees the total absence of harmful substances in a textile product, for both humans and the environment – and this throughout the entire production chain, from preparation to fixation, including the printing of designs.
French manufacturing
Our silk pieces are not only printed in Lyon, but also manufactured in the Lyon region.
After our designs are printed on large silk panels, our scarves, bracelets, and lavallières are re-rolled onto a large tube for their next stop: the finishing workshop. Also located in the Lyon region, our finishing workshop is a small workshop in the silk basin: this network of French manufacturers who have been working with silk for decades in collaboration, each specializing in a precise manufacturing step. This is where our accessories are "shaped": the seamstresses roll the edges of our scarves and assemble our lavallières and bracelets, putting them together and sewing them.
Next comes the quality control stage, before our pieces are carefully shipped in their respective boxes and cases. Here too, we have opted for French manufacturing. The cards we include with your orders are printed in Paris, on recycled paper, and our cloudy-touch square boxes are made in a Parisian cardboard factory. The only exception is the small boxes for our silk bracelets, which are manufactured in Belgium.
Our 75 Bois Enchanté Scarf, 100% silk.