Lanificio GB
Visited in 2022
Duration of visit : 2 hours
In the late 1830’s this wool mill was established. It was mainly focussed on the production of wool fabrics and later also on silk fabric. Around the 1920’s it merged with another wool mill. At the time, it had around 150 looms, a couple thousand spindles and about 250 employees. The products were distributed all over the world. In the old archives we found binders for the USA, Canada, all kinds of countries in Europe, the Far East and even New Zealand!
Most of the halls were empty. Rolls of clothing labels (with the name of the factory) were scattered through the halls and in some parts we found some old machinery and even a small production line for rolls of cloth. One of the coolest parts was the abandoned warehouse with industrial shelving units and two forklifts.
