Wedding Invitations

Damask Wedding Invitations

Damask is a fabric of wool, linen, silk, or synthetic fibers forming through its fibers’ weaving a certain pattern; it is known to have been one of the five weaving techniques used by the Byzantine and Islam of the Middle Ages in their weaving centers. The modern times gave birth to a single-color Damask weaving having patterns of different designs, the most common being fruits, flowers and decorative symbols. The property of “iridescence” is conferred by the way the woven threads reflect the light, this depending as well from the position of the one who observes the fabric.

Preparing to start your wedding planning, you consider that the choice of Damask wedding invitations is the best in order to present your guests the intention of celebrating your wedding in a note of elegance and refinement. The patterns of the Damask fabric which can be easily replicated on the page of a colored card stock give you an option to have your wedding cards ordered through online purchasing. But searching further through the web pages of wedding invitations stationeries you reach the conclusion that having your own cards created out of Damask fabric could bring a note of innovation and inspiration.

Getting in touch for the first time with this type of fabric, your grandma used to cover the table with one of this Damask fabric tablecloth whenever there was time for celebrating the annual holy days, you were fascinated by the effect this weaving of the threads had upon the general aspect of the tablecloth – with the light revealing different shadows and sparkles depending on the way one was looking at the fabric. Therefore you decide to go downtown and search for the Damask that will help you create your unique and personal Damask wedding invitations, having the source of inspiration the web pages of the invitations stationeries.

In one of the local stores you see different types of Damask, but the one that appeals to you apart from the usual black and white combination of threads is an Italian silk polychrome Damask to have different pattern inserted in the weaving: peacocks spreading their rich tails in a displaying of gold silk woven threads on a background of brown and olive colors, these two emphasizing in a stark manner the shapes of the peacocks.

The symbol of the peacock is that of royalty and integrity known to stand for the most admired human features, and beauty is among these features, that beauty that we strive to attain in order to make our life better and our inner self as well. It is also seen as the emblem of protection and holiness, of immortality and renewal in the spiritual teaching of Christianity. Later you find out that the Japanese myths associate this peacock symbol to that of love, good-will and kind-heartedness. And considering that the general not of your wedding is the reflection of all these human characteristics, you decide on this Italian silk polychrome Damask to be included in the aspect of your wedding invitations.

The final format of your cards depicts a two folded lemon-yellow card-stock bordered with wide stripes of this Damask that you have carefully glued and with the aid of gold trimmed silk ribbon you make a bow and attach it on the front page inside the empty underneath being your names printed in dark brown bolded letters shaped in “Monotype Corsiva” font style.  The card looks unique and personal, exactly how you have expected it to look, therefore you are proud to have it sent as the messenger of your upcoming happy event.