Chapter I — Heritage Atelier · Timișoara Feature DRAPE №3

A day in the atelier.

Str. Episcop Augustin Pacha 2, Timișoara · By appointment only · (0721) 550 455

The atelier door opens into a room where time runs differently. There is no rush. There is no series production. There is a man, a pair of shears and a cloth. The rest, the master says, is a matter of patience.

Atelierul DRAPE — încăperea principală
The atelier · Main showroom
Biblioteca de țesături
The cloth library
— Chapter III · The cloth

Over a thousand options.

On the atelier shelves wait over 1,000 cloths — pieces chosen personally from Italian and English mills with more than a century of history. Vitale Barberis Canonico since 1663. Fox Brothers since 1772. Piacenza since 1733. Loro Piana since 1924.

“The cloth is 70% of the suit,” the master says. “The rest is the world you step into.”

Tăierea țesăturii
Cutting
Cusătura manuală
Hand stitching
Camera de probă
The fitting room
— Our showroom —

A tour of the showroom.

Green walls, solid wood, Chesterfield armchairs and a cloth library that rises to the ceiling. The Timișoara showroom is where the suit takes shape — a room made for patience, not for haste.

Str. Episcop Augustin Pacha 2 · Timișoara

“Tailoring is not fashion. It is respect for the man who wears it.”

— The DRAPE master tailor —

— Chapter III · The fittings

Two fittings, never rushed.

Between the first mark on the cloth and the finished suit, two intermediate fittings. At the first, the suit is a skeleton of cloth pinned with paper tacks. The master adjusts the shoulder line, the jacket length, the waist.

At the second, the 14,000 hand stitches of the interior begin to take shape. Here the posture is drawn. Here the garment begins to breathe.

Maestrul croitor
The master tailor
— Private atelier —

Book a visit.

An afternoon with the master tailor. Cloths, measurements, ideas. No rush, no obligation.

Str. Episcop Augustin Pacha 2, Timișoara
By appointment only · (0721) 550 455