"...is as a ball of wool that winds along centuries bringing its coloured threads in the future...aiming to an elegance made of colours, tradition and colture...."
Gabriele Grisolini
The tissue Casentino
The present fabric with the curly surface, known with the name "Casentino", periodically raised to the forefront of the high fashion shows, is the descendant of that ancient rustic cloth market by florentine merchants of the fourteenth century with the term of big cloth of Casentino. Originally from the first valley of the Arno, the Casentino cloth was known, from the middle age until the nineteenth century, as a rustic and hard cloth made with the woolls produced by the sheeps of these mountains