It takes three years to acquire the modicum of skills needed for telaio, the complex weaving machines that strike this writer as looking a bit like a Calder sculpture seedling before it is cleaved from the ground and allowed to float. It’s the skills of older women in dwindling numbers that keep famed Umbrian cashmere products rolling out the doors of Umbrian knitwear ateliers like Rocco Ragni. Though these highly skilled women workers in the telaio industry are an increasingly rare breed.
Rocco Ragni Extends Beyond Knitwear
Though knitwear was Rocco Ragni’s launch, today its fashion wear goes far beyond to create lines both for a spring/summer season and a fall/winter one where 80 – 85% of the rollout still features knitwear. Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet countries are the fast growth market for this company and likely others, as well as exporting to the more developed but still fast-growing countries of Asia (Korea, Taiwan, etc.)
For more information about Rocco Ragni or to shop for Rocco Ragni fashions online visit the Rocco Ragne Website.
Fashion forward tourists can arrange an excursion to Rocco Ragni- and obtain discounts—from Divertimento Group’s Podere Molinaccio or Poggio del Pero
