Marzotto

Italian wool at industrial scale, done properly

Marzotto began in 1836, when Luigi Marzotto set up a small wool weaving factory in Valdagno, in the Veneto. Within six years the workshop had grown to 200 workers running machines and handlooms, and it never really stopped growing. By 1931 it was a multinational, and it has worked at industrial scale ever since.

Scale is not a dirty word here. It buys access to fibre most mills only read about: wool from Australia and New Zealand, mohair from South Africa, cashmere from Mongolia, silk from China. It also pays for research. Marzotto put machine-washable wool on the market in 2002 and has kept pushing stretch into proper tailoring cloth.

At the cutting table, that history shows up as predictability. The cloth arrives even and true to sample. It takes a press cleanly and behaves the same on the fiftieth suit as it did on the first, which matters more to made to measure work than romance does.

Two garments in our range show the breadth of the book: the Dusty Rose Suit and The Casablanca White Tux are both cut from Marzotto cloth, at very different ends of the formality scale, and both rely on the same quiet discipline in the weave.