Corporate
There is a place, in Prato, where time is not linear but circular, made of returns, metamorphoses, and new departures. It is Lyria’s Textile Library: not an archive in the traditional sense, but a living, pulsating Wunderkammer that preserves more than 30,000 fabric samples conceived by Riccardo Bruni and produced by Lyria over the years.
“Every archived fabric is much more than a technical sample: it is a trace of the evolution of fashion and, with it, of society. It tells stories of hands, gestures, and eras.”
The Textile Library is a tangible memory that nourishes the future, offering designers, students, researchers, and clients fertile ground for experimentation and inspiration. For Lyria, the archive is both a research tool and a cultural gesture. It does not merely preserve: it dialogues, suggests, provokes. It is open, shared, conceived as a place where the past becomes living matter for new creations. In this sense, it is a profoundly democratic space: an industrial and cultural heritage placed at the service of creativity.
Riccardo Bruni defines it as “a living organism”, because here fabric is not only an object, but a subject: capable of speaking, evoking, transforming. A fiber can recall a childhood memory, a textile can inspire an entire collection. Each piece is a fragment of a narrative awaiting new stories.
Lyria’s Textile Library is also an act of responsibility. In an age that risks forgetting the value of craftsmanship, research, and history, it stands as a guardian of identity. A place that does not belong solely to the past, but actively generates the future.
