EMILIO SALVATORE LEO

Lanificio Leo

Soveria Mannelli, Italy

“Lanificio Leo is an ancient future, a company museum whose management model combines business with the tools of culture.”

Lanificio Leo is the oldest textile factory in Calabria. Founded in 1873, today, it is a hub of contemporary design.

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Value in the details

Unique production techniques

Our products utilise orthogonal weaving with healds on electronic rapier looms and orthogonal jacquard weaving with perforated cardboard on shuttle looms from the 1960s and 1970s. On the other hand, knitting is carried out using a series of small manual machines dating back to the thirties of the twentieth century and using the latest jacquard machines.

You might wonder...

It's recommended manual or dry cleaning and mid-temperature ironing.

Why the process of making a Lanificio Leo product is a product?

Every day at Lanificio Leo the unique value of the relationship between the made in Italy heritage and the culture of design is transformed into a product.

The products made in Lanificio Leo are, before being textile objects expressing the state of the art of the state of the art of the sector, real narrative surfaces that welcome and interpret ideas that welcome and interpret the ideas and languages of contemporary designers.