19 stores · curated ORBIS register
Lyon put its patience into silk, and three houses still work it there, weaving or printing or painting it by hand. Maison des Canuts keeps Lyon's silk weaving heritage in its jacquard boutique. Brochier Soieries prints Lyon silk scarves and stoles as a Lyon silk house. Atelier de Soierie hand-paints silk scarves and printed squares in its Lyon atelier. Painted silk shows its brushwork against a window, which is where to judge it. Knot a silk scarf once and leave it alone, as over-tying tires the cloth within a season.
Bordeaux / Online
Petrusse is a Bordeaux scarf and textile house for printed scarves, stoles, silk, wool, and art-led accessories. At Bordeaux, the range centers on printed silk and wool scarves and stoles from the Bordeaux textile house.
Best for Printed silk and wool scarves and stoles from the Bordeaux textile house
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse
Open since 1997, Les Colorades stocks Provençal cotton prints by the metre alongside tablecloths, runners and napkins cut from the same regional patterns. The shop rounds out its textiles with ready-to-wear pieces like Provençal skirts and blouses, plus scarves and table accessories drawn from small regional workshops.
Best for Provençal print fabric and table linens
Lyon / Online
Lyon silk atelier for hand-painted scarves, printed silk squares, ties, and textile accessories.
Best for Hand-painted silk scarves, printed silk squares, and ties from a Lyon atelier
Lyon / Online
Brochier Soieries has made silk in Lyon since 1890, when Jean Brochier founded the house. Joseph Brochier supplied couturiers such as Jeanne Lanvin and Gabrielle Chanel, and from 1953 artists including Miró and Chagall made silk squares in its workshops. Today Cédric Brochier runs four Lyon boutiques and an archive of more than 100,000 designs.
Best for Lyon silk scarves, stoles, and art-print silk squares
Brochier Soieries is a Lyon silk house that dates its founding to 1890, when Jean Brochier launched the firm J. Brochier. He designed the fabric collections, financed the silk purchases and had the yarns thrown and dyed before degumming. His son Joseph took over in 1930 and steered the house toward fabrics of haute nouveauté for couturiers including Jean Patou, Jeanne Lanvin and Gabrielle Chanel. Offices followed in London, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. Joseph collected art and befriended the gallerist Aimé Maeght. From 1953 Miró, Braque, Giacometti and Chagall came to the workshops to make limited silk squares printed by hand in the Lyon manner. Jacques Brochier received the house in 1968, later joined by his brother Robert. He developed fabrics for Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Geoffrey Beene and Dior. From 1986 Cédric Brochier built new silk square collections with Daniel Buren, Yan Pei Ming, Yayoi Kusama, Combas and Jeff Koons, sold through museum shops worldwide. The archive holds more than 100,000 textile designs, of which over a thousand remain in use. The workshops in Lyon weave and print scarves and squares as well as stoles and ties from exclusive motifs. Four boutiques trade in Lyon, at the Grand Hôtel-Dieu, at the atelier on rue Romarin and in Vieux Lyon on rue du Bœuf.
Lyon / France
On the Croix-Rousse plateau, this working silk atelier keeps 19th-century Jacquard looms running and sells its own Phileone scarves, accessories and French-woven fabric by the metre. Weavers demonstrate the craft daily, and the boutique lets visitors carry a piece of Lyon's silk tradition home.
Best for Silk weaving, heritage boutique, textiles, jacquard
Lyon / Online
Lyon-area silk house founded in 1939 by Andre Malfroy and Jean Million; now based in Saint-Genis-Laval, it produces custom scarves and textiles for fashion houses and institutions, drawing on an 80-year pattern archive.
Best for Lyon silk scarves, stoles, shawls, and ties.
Maison Malfroy was founded in Lyon, France, in 1939 by Andre Malfroy and Jean Million, two silk-industry professionals. Today the firm is based at Villa Mercedes, in Saint-Genis-Laval, just outside Lyon. Malfroy's core business is custom silk scarves and textiles produced for fashion brands, cultural institutions, artists, and event agencies, drawing on a pattern archive spanning more than 80 years of designs. Beyond its bespoke B2B division, the house also sells ready-made silk products directly. Its client list, as stated on its own site, includes Moet and Chandon, Banque de France, and licensed Harry Potter merchandise.
Paris / Online
Atelier Particulier edits French wardrobe essentials with an emphasis on accessories: scarves, belts, leather goods and knitwear. The Paris-based selection is narrow by design, making materials and finishing easier to compare across familiar everyday pieces.
Best for French scarves, belts, leather goods, and knitwear essentials
PRINTEMPS
Despite its name (French for 'waxed concrete'), this Paris brand - not a construction-materials company - makes docker hats, caps, beanies and scarves in France from organic, GOTS-certified fabrics, founded 2013.
Best for Waxed-concrete kits and finishes for a mineral-look home surface
Contrary to the concrete/mineral-finish product implied by its name, betonxcire.com is a French headwear brand - Beton Cire, founded in 2013 by Amelie Le Roux - that makes docker hats, caps, beanies, rain hats and sun hats, along with bandanas and scarves, rather than any waxed-concrete building material; the name plays on that material's aesthetic rather than describing what the brand actually sells. Products are made in France using organic materials, with the brand citing Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certification and EU manufacturing compliance; its signature piece is the 'Miki Docker' hat. The range spans seasonal fabrics - wool, linen, hemp, cotton and denim, plus rain-resistant technical fabric. The brand ships internationally and lists physical stockists in several countries while operating primarily as an e-commerce business out of Paris.
Paris / Online
Paris menswear accessories house founded in 2011 by Alexandre Chapellier. Bow ties, ties, and scarves made in France (workshops in Fontaine-Raoul, Loir-et-Cher); formerly stocked at Colette, Neiman Marcus, and Isetan Shinjuku.
Best for French-made ties, scarves, and bow ties with character
Cinabre Paris is a men's accessories brand founded in 2011 by Alexandre Chapellier, who opened the first boutique that year in Paris's 10th arrondissement, at 20 rue d'Hauteville. The house began with 'couture' bow ties made from luxury-house fabric offcuts before expanding into boutonnieres, ties, scarves, and leather goods; production is handled in-house at ateliers in Fontaine-Raoul, in the Loir-et-Cher department. Early commercial success came largely from foreign buyers, particularly American clients, and the brand was carried by Paris concept store Colette, the Neiman Marcus chain in the US, Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo, and Le Bon Marche in Paris. GQ magazine nicknamed Chapellier the 'neck dresser of Paris.'
Paris
French swimwear brand founded in 2013 by Clarisse de Lacharriere and Aymeric Lacape after a trip to Indonesia's Gili Islands; eco-designed, recycled-polyester swimwear with boutiques in Paris and La Baule.
Best for Printed silk scarves and pocket squares in the Lyonnais tradition.
Gili's was founded in 2013 by Clarisse de Lacharriere and Aymeric Lacape, who created their first swimsuits and launched the brand after a trip to Indonesia's Gili Islands - the trip that gave the label its name, from the Indonesian word for 'island.' The brand's core business is swimwear for men, women and children, built around graphic prints and matching family sets, alongside a smaller range of ready-to-wear and beach accessories. Gili's positions itself around sustainability, describing its swimwear as eco-designed using recycled polyester and running a take-back program; it holds B Corp certification. Garments are manufactured in Spain, Portugal and Morocco. The brand has physical boutiques in Paris's Marais district and in La Baule, on France's Atlantic coast. None of this matches the prior listing, which described Gili's as a Lyon-tradition silk scarf and pocket-square house - that appears to be a case of mistaken identity with an unrelated silk-accessories brand.
Paris / Online
Paris menswear house founded 1997 by Frederic Costa at 45 rue d'Amsterdam, known for silk grenadine ties, wool scarves, pocket squares and shirts, not shoes. Costa has since rebranded the house under his own name, Frederic Costa.
Best for The Paris shoe institution now continued by Frédéric Costa
Howard's was a Paris menswear boutique founded in 1997 by Frederic Costa, who trained as a mechanic before turning to fashion. The house built its name on sartorial accessories: silk and wool grenadine neckties, madder-print ties, cashmere-blend scarves, silk twill pocket squares, and shirts, aimed at neighbourhood businessmen before growing into a name recognised among sartorial enthusiasts more broadly. Over the years Howard's built collaborations with the perfume house Caron and the menswear media brand Bonne Gueule. More recently, Costa has moved the business under his own name, now operating as Frederic Costa ('ex Howard's').
PRINTEMPS
French textile atelier in Baie de Somme — hand silk-screened illustrated scarves and accessories on cashmere, wool, silk, and cotton, printed by artisans using historic workshop techniques.
Best for Illustrated wool stoles and printed scarves full of narrative whimsy
Inoui Editions is a French printed scarves and textile accessories brand created by two women in a studio in Baie de Somme, France, and has been reinventing its collections each season for over fifteen years. The design studio is located in the Baie de Somme region, where each Inoui Éditions scarf begins with an original drawing imagined and created by hand. The illustrations are conceived to fit their frame perfectly, featuring dramatic animal imagery and witty collages. The scarves are imagined in their French studio, then carefully made in a historic workshop in India using time-honored techniques and hand silk-screened by artisans, bringing uniqueness to each piece. The house creates illustrated square scarves that explore the art of drawing applied to textiles, in constant dialogue between material, color, and visual storytelling. Inoui Edition's inspirations are eclectic, drawn from nature, street culture, and history, playing on mixing styles, influences, and eras.
Paris / Online
Paris silk label founded in 2008 by Laurence Maheo, who began reassembling vintage silk-twill scarves into numbered pieces before launching ready-to-wear in 2010; opened a second location in her hometown of Baden, Brittany, in 2022.
Best for Made-in-France silk prints with Breton-Paris eccentricity
La Prestic Ouiston is a Paris fashion label founded in 2008 by Laurence Maheo, who began by reassembling vintage silk-twill scarves into unique, numbered pieces before expanding in 2010 into a full ready-to-wear collection sold through selective stores worldwide. The label is known for using natural materials and delicate prints, developed in collaboration with different artists each season. Maheo opened the brand's second physical location in 2022 in a former butcher shop in her hometown of Baden, in Brittany's Gulf of Morbihan.
Paris / Online
Paris tie house founded by Francois-Regis Laporte, trained in pattern cutting at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. Ties, bow ties, ascots and pocket squares are hand-cut and sewn from Lyon silk in its own Paris workshop, sold from its boutique at 42 rue de Verneuil.
Best for Ties, scarves, and collars — polished French finishing accessories.
Maison F was founded by Francois-Regis Laporte, who trained in pattern cutting at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and worked earlier as an assistant at Jacques Fath and press manager at Bruuns Bazaar. Laporte describes Maison F as the only remaining dedicated tie-maker operating in Paris. The house's ties, bow ties and accessories are cut and hand-sewn from silk sourced in Lyon, with roughly 20 minutes of handwork per tie; the workshop employs around fifty seamstresses. Maison F's Paris boutique is located at 42 rue de Verneuil, in the Carre Rive Gauche district.
Toulouse / France
In her Minimes workshop in Toulouse, Annette Hardouin dyes scarves, jewelry, and textiles in the historic blue of Isatis tinctoria, the pastel plant that once made Toulouse rich. AHPY also opens its doors for hands-on pastel dyeing workshops, sending visitors home with a hand-dyed scarf square.
Best for Textiles, Pastel Dye, Scarves, Jewelry
Limoges, France
J.M. Weston has made men's and women's shoes since Édouard Blanchard opened his manufacture in Limoges in 1891, and the brand still produces its footwear at that Limousin factory today. Alongside its shoes, the house makes leather goods, belts, scarves and gloves, sold through its own boutiques and website.
Best for Limoges-made shoes, the Model 180 loafer and house leather goods.
JM Weston was founded in 1891 in Limoges, France, by Édouard Blanchard, initially trading as E. Blanchard & Cie before later renaming first to The Ultra Shoes and eventually to J.M. Weston. The company has always been based in Limoges, a region with a long tanning and leatherworking tradition, and continues to operate a single factory there where all of its leather-soled shoes are made. In 1981, JM Weston acquired the Tannerie Bastin, a tannery founded in 1806 that uses traditional vegetable-tanning methods; since then it has been the exclusive supplier of sole leather for JM Weston's shoes, making JM Weston the only shoemaker to own its own sole-leather tannery outright. Each pair of shoes reportedly spends around eight weeks moving through roughly 200 separate manufacturing steps in the Limoges workshops, following traditional bespoke shoemaking methods. The house's best-known model is the 180, a penny loafer first introduced in the 1940s-50s era that became closely associated with the wardrobe of the French professional and political establishment, sometimes nicknamed the shoe of French power for its adoption by civil servants, bankers and politicians. JM Weston remains part of the Groupe EPI portfolio of French luxury houses.
Chaumont / Online
Maison Baluchon applies colourful illustration to scarves, bags, pouches, cushions and small accessories. The range works well for compact gifts, with repeated prints connecting fashion and home categories.
Best for Illustrated silk scarves, bags, pouches, and cushions in colorful French designs.
France / Online
Not Shy focuses on French cashmere label for sweaters, cardigans, ponchos, scarves, and soft everyday knitwear. At France, the range centers on French cashmere sweaters, cardigans, ponchos, and scarves for everyday knitwear.
Best for French cashmere sweaters, cardigans, ponchos, and scarves for everyday knitwear
Tarascon / Provence / Online
A Provençal textile house tracing its roots to 1806, known for traditional block-printed calico. Its Avignon boutique on rue Joseph Vernet carries fashion, silk and cotton scarves, table linens and homeware.
Best for Block-printed Provençal calico, scarves, and table linens dating to 1806
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