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The Panno Casentino

With a long history of 7 centuries to the shoulders, the cloth Casentino is one of the points of reference today of the made In Italy.
Exported in Europe, Japan and United States, you/he/she has been used by Roberto Cavalli, Pierre Cardin and Gianfranco Ferrè for some of their creations.

panno in casentinoThe traditional suit in Casentino in past to double breast with martingale and neck of fox, it was considered from Verdi, Ricasoli and Puccini symbol of elegance and refinement suitable to go to hunting or to climb on to horse.

The curl that distinguishes the suits in cloth Casentino forms a layer that protects from the cold and from the rain.
In past this curl was gotten brushing the wool with a stone while today it is realizing him with the teeth in steel of industrial machineries.

The ownerships of the cloth Casentinos are nearly a perfect thermal isolation without this prevents in some way the transpiration.

colori panno casentinoThe traditional colors of the suits in cloth Casentinos are the green and the orange tree, to which recently the firms have added other colors and other tonalities.

The wool in Casentino

The wool was already worked in Casentino in ancient epochs, etrusca and Roman, and in 1300 the inhabitants of the Palagio fiorentino of Stia they paid the taxes to Florence with some wool cloths.

In that time the wool was plotted for the monks camaldolesi but already from the XV sec. it was begun to realize the first suits also for the monks of the near sanctuary of the Verna.

This 'big cloth' it had a great resistance to the usury, it withstood well the bad weather and it was proper for the necessities of whom had to travel or to spend to the open one his/her own day.

Stia and Soci

lanificio di stiaThe cloth Casentino was used for making capes for drawing animals and had commercialized since 1890 to Florence initially from the lanificio of Stia, then also from the lanificio of Partners. The activities became soon industrial with around 800 workers that worked in the two lanificis.

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