100% COTTON This piece-dyed 240g double twisted cotton gabardine embodies Solbiati quality and savoir-faire perfectly. ABOUT SOLBIATI : Solbiati is aLORO PIANA SpA group company. It was founded in Busto Arsizio in 1874, by Michele Solbiati, to produce cotton, velvet, and moleskin fabrics.
Later, it moved to Lonate Pozzolo, in the same province (Varese), remaining in the same sector even when Michele’s sons Leopoldo and Carlo took over.
Enrico and Peppino, the next generation, introduced artificial fibres, especially viscose, in the 1930s and 1940s. The fourth generation, Andrea and Vittorio, who now run the company, have wagered on linen and achieved remarkable success.
At the end of the twentieth century, Solbiati showed an average annual turnover of eighty billion euros. It produces about five million metres of cloth per year, selling sixty-five percent of the product (in addition to linen, also cotton, wool, viscose, viscose-linen blend) abroad.
The company is now also engaged in important research, especially in processing of twisted and crêped linen yarn, using fabric distressing techniques and special decolorization processes. In 1984, the company patented Sasil di Erbacina, a vegetable fibre made from ramie. Durable and compact, ideal for expressing KA/NOA’s contemporary style. 100% Made in Italy |
