During the de-verticalization process, which involved much of the Italian industry in the ‘70s, Roberto Fossi and Franco Cecconi established Tessitura Innocenti e Nesi, a subcontractor, for over forty years a valuable driving gear in the Prato based textile cluster, a business that succeeded in overcoming various downturn periods while adapting to a global market
In Sant'Antioco, Sardinia (Italy), Chiara Vigo, a sea silk master, keeps up a thousand year old tradition. By doing that, sea silk, that lit up the colour of King Salomon’s clothes in the Ancient Scriptures, still shines in our museums