Established in 1921, Fortuny is now the last operating factory in Venice. Built with impossible ingenuity like the city itself, our artisans create textiles that reflect the city's engineering brilliance and timeless beauty.

Our textiles elevate noble cotton into something as luminous as silk, as rich as velvet— yet made to last. Through secret techniques passed down for generations, our artisans layer color and light to create depth and emotion no machine can replicate.

Behind every Fortuny textile lives a human story. Expert artisans in our Giudecca atelier practice methods known only to them—printing each pattern by hand through rituals perfected over a century. Each piece bears the irreplicable beauty of its maker's touch.

Born in 1871, Mariano Fortuny found sanctuary in Venice—a city of impossible light. With his wife Henriette, he transformed his palazzo into an atelier of wonder, inventing revolutionary textile techniques and patenting printing methods that transformed ancient patterns into modern masterpieces.

Behind the locked gates of our Venice factory on the Giudecca, a handful of chosen artisans practice centuries-old techniques, shrouded in mystery and protected by our founder's will. Using original machinery and processes established over a century ago, they conjure luminous textiles leavened with color and ancient wisdom.