An artisan story

This story was born among the colors of the yarns, the smell of fabric and the deafening noise of the looms of a historic company in Prato, in the beating heart of Tuscan craftsmanship.

Here Carlo and Fabio get to know each other, learn the beauty of a trade and cultivate their passion for knitwear. A wise art handed down from generation to generation. Mauro, Fabio's father, with a life spent in the shop behind him, is a master for them.

Every day there is a new thing to learn, a new plot to create.
Together, Carlo and Fabio work like a perfect fit.

For 20 years they work side by side, until one day all that poetry vanishes. The company suspends its activity.
The disappointment for Carlo and Fabio is enormous. The two friends take different paths, but they know that everything can't end like this. They break up with the promise to collaborate again soon and create something beautiful together .

In fact, a few years passed and the irrepressible desire to give life to a new productive reality, all of their own, rattled. This is how Nonsololana was born, a knitwear factory specializing in the production of fine cashmere garments.

Starting from scratch is not easy, but in an instant that perfect working harmony re-emerges.
Carlo and Fabio whirl like tops. There are only two of them who take care of everything: they make the garments, they go knocking on the customers' doors, they take care of the accounting.

But, slowly, the quality of their work is rewarded and the company puts it into the right gear. From two they turn into four, from four they turn into six.

And so a large family comes to life made up of genuine Pratesi artisans, raised on bread and looms, moved by the mastery of the "Tuscan know-how".

This family is the same one that still today creates Cashmere Island products.