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Our company, which was founded in 1946, has always
been linked to the fascinating world of chenille and has seen
all the transformations and developments which have occurred in
both the textile components used in production and in the mechanical
and electronic field of the continuous progress in machine technology.
In 1946 the founder of the company, Luigi Boldrini, built a machine
for the production of chenille yarn. It was a small, hand-built
machine assembled from what few components were available on the
poor post-war market.
It was, however, an innovative prototype when compared to the
previous machines shown in this old photograph from the beginning
of the century.
The machine in the photograph was brought to Florence in the 1920s.
It produced chenille by a shuttle moving horizontally, creating
two lengths of yarn each time, each as long as the room in which
the machine stood. These lengths of yarn then had to be tied together
with knots in order to have a length of yarn long enough to be
worked.
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