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  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: An employee unrolls a fabric that will be marked and cut at the men's suits production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6595.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A tailor sews a blazer at the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6749.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A tailor marks the fabrics to be cut at the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6851.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A tailor works on the buttonholes of a blazer at the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6769.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: An employee marks the fabrics to be cut at the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6583.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Tailors are here at work in the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6566.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Tailors are here at work at the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6859.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Tailors mark the fabrics to be cut, under the flags of the Naples soccer team and of Italy, in the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6840.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Tailors are here at work in the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6577.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Blazers hang by a wall personalized by the Kiton tailors and employees with religious icons and prayers, in the men's suit production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6824.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: CEO Antonio De Matteis is here at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7197.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: CEO of Kiton Antonio De Matteis shows a Pura Vicuna fabric at Fabrics unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7124.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A tailor and teacher of the Kiton Tailoring School (left) reviews his student's blazer at the Kiton Tailoring School, in the headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6934.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Fabrics are stored in the women's production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6910.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Interior of the office headquarters of Kitonin Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6545.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: CEO of Kiton Antonio De Matteis walks up the stairs towards his office at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7171.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Fabrics supervisor Luigi Paone places an icon of San Gennaro, the saint protector of Naples, at the Fabrics division at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7149.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: CEO of Kiton Antonio De Matteis shows a 13.5 fabric at Fabrics unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7111.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Blazers worked on by students are at the Kiton Tailoring School, at the Kiton headquarters in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6976.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Students are here at work at the Kiton Tailoring School at the Kiton headquarters in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6964.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A student sews a blazer buttonhole at the Kiton Tailoring School, at the Kiton headquarters in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6949.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Students are here at work at the Kiton Tailoring School at the Kiton headquarters in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6941.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Fabrics are stored in the women's production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6912.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A framed icon of Saint Anthony stands on a working table among sewing thread at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6900.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: (L-R) CEO Antonio De Matteis, Founder and President Ciro Paone and Vice President and General Manager Maria Giovanna Paone, pose for a family portrait at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6706.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: President and Founder of Kiton Ciro Paone, 81, goes from one office to the other in his wheelchair here at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6684.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: President and Founder of Kiton Ciro Paone, 81, poses for a portrait at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6652.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A portrait of Ciro Paone, Founder and President of Kiton, is here at the entrance of the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6521.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A portrait of Ciro Paone, Founder and President of Kiton, is here at the entrance of the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6515.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Numbered boxes containing ties (each number corresponding to a client, and each color to a country) are stored at the Kiton Tie production unit at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7028.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: CEO of Kiton Antonio De Mattesi (background, center-left) walks in the cafeteria, behind the reflection of a photograph of Founder of Ciro Paone meeting former President of Italy Carlo Arzeglio Ciampi, at the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6691.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Interior of the office headquarters of Kitonin Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6636.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: Fabrics supervisor Luigi Paone stands at the entrance of the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6604.jpg
  • ARZANO, ITALY - 10 APRIL 2014: A portrait of Ciro Paone, Founder and President of Kiton, is here at the entrance of the Kiton headquarters and factory in Arzano, Italy, on April 16th 2014.<br />
<br />
Kiton is a luxury clothing company co-founded in 1956  in Naples by Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation fabric merchant. Launched in 1968, the brand produces suits, overcoats, ties, shirts, trousers, knitwear, outwear, shoes, leather accessories, and bags,  womenswear, fragrances and eyewear. Kiton produces 22,000 men suits per year and their sales proceeds was of 95mln euros.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_6531.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 10 ARIL 2014: People relax by the panoramic viewpoint at the Capodimonte Park overlooking Naples and the island of Capri, in Naples, Italy, on April 10th 2014.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7304.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 10 ARIL 2014:  A couple is here at the panoramic viewpoint of the Capodimonte Park overlooking Naples and the island of Capri (right), in Naples, Italy, on April 10th 2014.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7278.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 10 ARIL 2014: Two women walk towards a panoramics viewpoint at the Capodimonte Park in Naples, Italy, on April 10th 2014.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7252.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 10 ARIL 2014: The Capodimonte Park in Naples, Italy, on April 10th 2014.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7225.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 10 ARIL 2014:  A woman is here at the panoramic viewpoint of the Capodimonte Park overlooking Naples and the island of Capri (right), in Naples, Italy, on April 10th 2014.
    CIPG_20140410_INYT_Kiton__M3_7283.jpg
  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, teaches some yoga poses to her students at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, practices some yoga pose at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, practices some yoga pose at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    train-suit_014.jpg
  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    train-suit_012.jpg
  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    train-suit_010.jpg
  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, teaches some yoga poses to her students at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, practices some yoga pose at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, teaches some yoga poses to her students at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, teaches some yoga poses to her students at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, is here in a class at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • 26 November, 2008. New York, NY. Chrissy Carter, 30, practices some yoga pose at the Yogaworks in Manhattan, NY, where she is a yoga instructor. She's a former college dancer and Wall Steret equity sales trader. She quit her job after falling in love with yoga. She started teaching 6 years ago and started teaching full-time 4 years ago. She now also certifies yoga teachers.<br />
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  • MANTOVA, ITALY - 7 JANUARY 2019: Samples of fabrics used for the Lubiam suits are seen here in the Style Office of the Lubiam plant in Mantova, Italy, on January 7th 2019.<br />
<br />
The L.B.M. 1911 brand (Luigi Bianchi Mantova) is part of the family-owned Lubiam group, the atelier founded in 1911 by Luigi Bianchi (then called “Primaria Sartoria Luigi Bianchi”)i and that since then handcrafted its suits in the same Mantova factory they’ve always been. His son Edgardo Bianchi introduced the Fordist model to the company, aimed at improving the production time while guaranteeing top quality results with the same characteristics as bespoke tailoring. Today, the company is ran bu the fourth generation of the Bianchi family.
    CIPG_20190107_NYT_LBM_M3_6603.jpg
  • MANTOVA, ITALY - 7 JANUARY 2019: Samples of fabrics used for the Lubiam suits are seen here in the Style Office of the Lubiam plant in Mantova, Italy, on January 7th 2019.<br />
<br />
The L.B.M. 1911 brand (Luigi Bianchi Mantova) is part of the family-owned Lubiam group, the atelier founded in 1911 by Luigi Bianchi (then called “Primaria Sartoria Luigi Bianchi”)i and that since then handcrafted its suits in the same Mantova factory they’ve always been. His son Edgardo Bianchi introduced the Fordist model to the company, aimed at improving the production time while guaranteeing top quality results with the same characteristics as bespoke tailoring. Today, the company is ran bu the fourth generation of the Bianchi family.
    CIPG_20190107_NYT_LBM_M3_6594.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's original design sketch of the machine that creates warp threads and that is still used here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most nob
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3764.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2473.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2435.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's original design sketch of the machine that creates warp threads and that is still used here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most nob
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3682.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2455.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2453.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2417.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018:  Wooden shuttles and silk threads are seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5497.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Samples of silk fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
<br />
Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city�
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3902.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Punched Jacquard cards are seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The pattern created in the Jacquard cards directs the weaver, and it can take 2000 cards to produce 1.6 meters of fabric.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of f
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3772.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3558.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silk warp yarns are seen here in a handloom from the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
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Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six mor
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5788.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silvania Marco Ribeiro, a weaver, works on the silk throwing process by a silk winding machine at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechan
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5691.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silvania Marco Ribeiro, a weaver, works on the silk throwing process by a silk winding machine at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechan
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5645.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silvania Marco Ribeiro, a weaver, works on the silk throwing process by a silk winding machine at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechan
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5568.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Weft<br />
yarn wounds on bobbins (pirns) are seen here on a handloom, dating back to the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5213.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silk warp yarns are seen here in a handloom from the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six mor
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5206.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silk worm cocoons are seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10 meters daily. T
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_4008.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Rolls of silk fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
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Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3938.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A sofa and pillows made of silk fabrics are seen here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
<br />
Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3922.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Samples of silk fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
<br />
Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city�
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3899.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Rolls of silk fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
<br />
Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3803.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: The machine made from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci, that creates warp threads, is seen here at work at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own loo
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3716.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Daniela Fallani, a weaver, is seen here working on a handloom dating back to the 1700s that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day;
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3232.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A view of a handloom from the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, is seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern”
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3211.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018:  A wooden shuttle with a weft<br />
yarn wound on a bobbin (pirn) is seen here on fabric processed by  a handloom dating back to the 1700s, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
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Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3091.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Simona Polimeni, a weaver, looks for a broken warp on a semi-mechanical loom from the 1800s that can produce 10 meters daily, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2994.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Luana Segreto, a weaver, is seen here working on a handloom dating back to the 1700s that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; t
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2710.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Luana Segreto, a weaver, is seen here working on a handloom dating back to the 1700s that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; t
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2700.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: The main entrance of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10 meters daily. The mill won’
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2493.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: The main entrance of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10 meters daily. The mill won’
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2486.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the hand looms from the 1700s at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeter
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2376.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the hand looms from the 1700s at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeter
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2371.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the hand looms from the 1700s at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeter
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2338.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018:  Wooden shuttles and silk threads are seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5767.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silk threads are seen here by the warp yarn in a handloom from the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joi
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5742.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silvania Marco Ribeiro, a weaver, works on the silk throwing process by a silk winding machine at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechan
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5671.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Silk is reeled here by a  winding machine at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10 meter
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5617.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: The side entrance of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
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Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern” semi-mechanical looms, from the 1800s, that can produce 10 meters daily. The mill won’
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A Broccato fabric is seen here as it is being processed in a handloom from the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
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Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day;
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A view of a handloom from the 1700s, that can produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day, is seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
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Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeters of fabric a day; they are joined by six more “modern”
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5375.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Jacquard cards punch equpment is seen here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The pattern created in the Jacquard cards directs the weaver, and it can take 2000 cards to produce 1.6 meters of fabric.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
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Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own looms. But in 1786 the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany took all the looms of the private aristocratic families and put them in one place. They ended up at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino: six of them from the 1700s, hand looms that produce a mere 40 centimeter
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5353.jpg
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