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ANGHIARI - Business
Cloths of Anghiari
One of the grand traditions of Anghiari is without a doubt cloths.In fact, one of the characteristics of Anghiarian businesses is to be able to produce for a vast market, maintaining family type business dimensions. There were producers of armour and vases and cloth dyers, basket weavers from the plains as well as antique dealers and restoration shops whose work was more often appreciated in the metropolitan circles than in the Tiberina Valley itself.
It was at the end of the 1700's that someone thought about organizing the production of materials and lace, weaving wool from sheep or hemp cultivated near home. The Bussati's, although origianlly from Valdarano, soon joined the Anghiarian business distinguishing themselves as laborious merchants. The textiles tradition of the Bussati's took off above all with the figure of Livio, who at the beginning of this century began distributing the work to households therefore entrusting the production of material to a large number of weavers in the countryside. He implemented a small laboratory and the first commercial network that would bring the name Busatti to in over fifty stores in the world. After the war the new times forces the heirs of Livio to make a radical decision.
The business, in fact, was no longer sufficiently adequate to confront the new market. They chose therefore the direction of quality materials, founding the use of exclusive fiber such as canvas, linen, and cotton, pointing towards a refined product through traditional designs and colors.
Hereof you have the tints that at one time characterized the clothing of craftsmen; green for the cultivators, brown for the shoemakers, and so on, and even the tablecloths with decorations inspired by the work of festoons in terracotta by artist Andrea della Robbia. Objects of commom use became therefore real works of art.
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