COMO, Italy — Liz Karp, former Sales Manager for Weave Corp., USA, has been retained as an independent sales agent for Vigano SpA. the Italian jacquard mill based in Nibionno, IT which specializes in velvets and contract fabrics.

Karp is a veteran fabric fashionista with a huge following among Northeast jobbers. She was with Weave for almost her entire career, about 25 years,  prior to joining the Vigano sales effort.

Vigano also hired a West Coast agent in Robert Egan about two years ago. This is part of Vigano’s aggressive export effort worldwide.

Fabric buyers Araceli Damian and Jeanette Rodriquez of MGM Resorts with Robert Egan and Piercarlo Vigano (left)

Piercarlo Vigano told F&FI that he previously had no agent in the New York area for 25 years until Liz Karp came along.

“I just couldn’t find a replacement for our last agent,” Vigano said. He is also the President of the Proposte exhibition and was last seen at his stand in Istanbul during Evteks and Heimtextil Asia in the Italian Pavilion.