19 stores · curated ORBIS register
Italian silk folds Lake Como into a square, printed at the source since 1902 and sold under lakefront arcades. Mantero has printed silk scarves in Como since 1902 from the source. Mantero 1902 weaves and prints silk foulards as the house's founding Como label. Barindelli e Trezzi has traded Bellagio silk ties and handmade umbrellas under the lakefront arcades since 1944.
Bellagio, Lake Como
Azalea has printed Como silk into scarves, shawls and ties since 1960, working from a shopfront in Bellagio's stepped lanes above the lake. Alongside the silk it carries cashmere, cotton and wool pieces made to its own limited-edition designs and produced locally in nearby Como.
Best for Como silk scarves and shawls
Bellagio / Lake Como / Online
Bellagio's lakeside silk boutique — jacquard ties, foulards, and hand-made stoles from Como looms.
Best for Lakeside silk scarves and jacquard ties.
Piazza Mazzini, Bellagio, Como
Trading under Bellagio's lakefront arcades since 1944, Barindelli e Trezzi makes silk ties, scarves and handmade leather bags, plus individually crafted umbrellas, drawing on family lines in wool-spinning and leatherwork.
Best for Bellagio silk ties, leather bags and handmade umbrellas
Barindelli e Trezzi has traded from Piazza Mazzini in Bellagio, on Lake Como, since 1944, under the arcades between the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni and Hotel Florence. The business draws on two family trades: one great-grandfather, Ettore Sola, ran wool spinning in the Biella valleys in the early 20th century, while another, Francesco, developed leather container-making in the family workshop - a combination that still shows in the shop's split between silk and leather goods today. By the family's own account, American servicemen stationed in Bellagio at the end of the Second World War were among the first to buy the Italian-made silk and leather pieces that built the shop's early reputation. The current range centres on men's silk ties, scarves, bow ties and pocket squares in 100% pure silk, alongside handmade women's leather bags and travel luggage; handcrafted umbrellas are made individually using the same traditional techniques rather than assembled from stock parts, sitting as a genuine but secondary line next to the silk and leather. The workshop also makes fabric-and-leather trolleys and toiletry cases, and keeps a practice of recovering offcuts from larger production runs into smaller items like coin purses and key rings rather than discarding them - a detail that reflects a small workshop's economics as much as any sustainability branding.
Cernobbio / Bellagio (Como)
Frey has produced silk scarves, foulards and shawls in the province of Como since 1899, describing each piece as a zero-mile product made entirely within the Como area. Its boutiques face the lake at Cernobbio and Bellagio, with a showroom in Cantù.
Best for Silk scarves and shawls
Biella, Italy
Piacenza traces its textile business to 1733 in Pollone, within the Biella district of northern Italy. The house now sells knitwear and ready-to-wear alongside scarves, drawing on a range of natural fibres. Its factory is in Pollone, while the published ready-to-wear showroom address is in Milan.
Best for Knitwear and natural-fibre scarves
Piacenza's knitwear has its roots in Pollone, in the Biella textile district of northern Italy. The company's range includes ready-to-wear and accessories made with natural fibres. Its account of production is useful for understanding what sits behind a finished garment, beyond the name on the label.
An order begins with a technical sheet specifying the yarn and model, with instructions prepared at the Pollone plant. Knitting machines make the main body separately from sleeves and collars. Assembly then combines hand work with specialised machines. This is a sequence of different operations, rather than a claim that the whole garment is hand-knitted.
Washing brings out the fabric's softness before machine pressing and hand finishing. The finished knit is folded and packed with its technical sheet and identifying code. Piacenza describes that code as a way to follow a garment through the process. When comparing pieces, the fibre composition and construction therefore offer a more useful starting point than a broad promise of craftsmanship. The house's own explanation makes those production stages visible without turning the shop into a factory-tour destination.
Como
Larioseta manufactures silk scarves and fashion accessories in the Como textile district. It sells printed foulards and scarves directly through its own online shop.
Best for Silk scarves
Grandate (Como)
Founded in 1902, Mantero prints and weaves silk foulards, apparel and accessories at its mill in Grandate just outside Como, drawing on an archive of exclusive patterns. Every step is carried out in the province of Como and the goods are labelled 100% made in Italy.
Best for Printed silk foulards and scarves
Portofino / Italy
Frugone 1885 is a Genoa-based cashmere house whose Portofino boutique on Molo Umberto I sells hand-finished knitwear, scarves and accessories. The brand also operates stores in Florence, Genoa and Savignone.
Best for Hand-finished knitwear, scarves and accessories
Melpignano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The weaving workshop at the Le Costantine estate near Lecce works four-shaft wooden looms to produce tapestries, rugs, blankets and cashmere, linen and silk scarves by hand, a craft the foundation revived originally to support local women's independence. Every piece gets its finishing done by hand rather than machine.
Best for Hand-loomed Salento textiles and scarves
Milan, Italy
Milanese accessories and knitwear house founded 1892 by Giuseppe Sartori as a necktie shop near Via Montenapoleone; the Altea trademark was formalized in 1946, known for brushed-wool knitwear made in Umbria and Marche.
Best for Printed shirts, knit polos, scarves; Printed polos, sophisticated
Altea began in 1892 as a necktie shop in Milan, opened by Giuseppe Sartori near what is now Via Montenapoleone. The Altea trademark itself was formally established in 1946. In the 1970s a fourth generation, brothers Michele and Luca Sartori, expanded the line into scarves and other accessories; by the 1990s Altea had grown into a full men's and women's 'total look' brand. It is best known today for colorful brushed-wool knitwear, alongside shirting, soft tailoring and accessories, with most pieces made in Umbria and Marche, Italy's traditional knitwear-producing regions.
Milan / Online
Milanese textile-and-fashion house founded in 1968 by Gerolamo 'Gimmo' Etro; introduced its signature paisley pattern in 1981, inspired by antique shawls he and wife Roberta collected. Still family-run, with each of Gimmo's children heading a different division.
Best for Paisley scarves and bohemian-luxe wardrobe.
Gerolamo "Gimmo" Etro founded his Milan textile house in 1968, supplying fabrics to couture before deciding the fabrics deserved their own label. The 1981 arrival of paisley set the course: inspired by the antique Kashmir shawls he and his wife Roberta collected, the teardrop boteh became Etro's signature the way monograms serve other houses — except this one predates fashion by a millennium.
The house grew into full menswear, womenswear and home collections while staying family-run to an unusual degree — each of Gimmo's four children took a division: Kean the menswear, Veronica the womenswear, Jacopo accessories and textiles, Ippolito the management. The Milan headquarters holds one of Europe's great private textile archives, thousands of documents deep — the paisley trail running back to the Indian and Kashmiri shawls that started the collection.
L Catterton took a majority stake in 2021 and Marco De Vincenzo now directs the collections, but the register is constant: bohemian luxury with a library behind it — velvet, jacquard, embroidery, and always, somewhere, the paisley making its ancient argument.
Naples / Online
Neapolitan accessories in bold color — ties, bow ties, scarves and boutonnieres from micro to macro pattern; a Pitti regular dressing the gentleman who uses style as speech.
Best for Ties, bow ties & boutonnieres
Monte & Vintage, Rome / Online
Pifebo stocks carefully curated vintage — 1970s Italian leather jackets, 1950s silk scarves, denim and accessories. Fair prices, staff who know their fashion history, and a Monti institution.
Best for Affordable vintage digging.
Via Vittorio Emanuele, Capri town
Born from the Aiello family behind the historic Grazia e Graziella boutique, Eco Capri turns island light into printed silk scarves, ceramics and accessories. Its Capri town shop is known for cheerful lemon- and majolica-tile motifs made in Italy.
Best for Printed silk scarves and island accessories
Prato / Tuscany / Online
Prato textile house founded 1949, still family-run; third-generation Monica Sarti launched the first scarf collection in 2000, woven from cashmere, wool, silk and modal at the family mill.
Best for Featherweight artistic scarves.
Faliero Sarti's roots go back to 1948-1949 in Prato, Tuscany, when its namesake founder began working fine yarns - cashmere, virgin wool and silk - into knit fabrics and jersey, eventually supplying haute couture and pret-a-porter houses. In 1991 third-generation family member Monica Sarti began developing scarves for the house, and the first dedicated Faliero Sarti scarf collection launched in 2000. Today the range spans cashmere, wool, silk and modal scarves and stoles, alongside a home collection, sold through the company's own boutiques (Florence, Rome, Milan, Forte dei Marmi, Porto Rotondo) and its e-commerce site.
Torgiano, Umbria, Italy
Cashmere knitwear manufacturer in Torgiano, Umbria, founded in 1985 by Ivo Cetra and Alberta Baccaille; produces handcrafted sweaters, cardigans and scarves, reportedly under its own Dobie Jones (Europe) and Pullaround (Americas/Asia) lines.
Best for Cashmere, contemporary
Ima Cashmere is a knitwear manufacturer based in Torgiano, in the Umbria region near Perugia, founded in 1985 by Ivo Cetra and his wife Alberta Baccaille. The company produces handcrafted cashmere garments for men, women and children, describing its production as fully Made in Italy. Italian and regional business directories describe two branded lines sold under the Ima Cashmere umbrella: Dobie Jones, aimed at the European market, and Pullaround, aimed at North America, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea.
Sardinia, Italy
Inveloveritas redraws the geometries and motifs of Sardinian craft for contemporary clothing and objects. Giuseppe Scalas and Maria Francesca Maniga founded the label and made its knitwear, stoles, foulards together between 2015 and 2023. Graphics are designed digitally, screen printed by hand, then painted on the cloth. The label works a local supply chain and describes its output as made in Italy.
Best for Sardinian pattern redrawn on hand screen-printed shawls and scarves.
Inveloveritas is a fashion and design label that reworks Sardinian tradition for the present. Giuseppe Scalas and Maria Francesca Maniga founded it, and between 2015 and 2023 they produced the knitwear, the stoles and the foulards together with every drawing used on the furnishing pieces. Since 2023 they have worked separately. The method sits between the studio and the workshop. Graphics are drawn digitally, printed by artisanal screen printing, then finished with hand painting on the cloth. Work that begins on paper can end as digital embroidery. The patterns come from the geometries, motifs, weaves, colours of Sardinian art and craft, redrawn so they can be worn and used rather than only looked at. Maniga trained in pattern cutting and brings the hand painting and the loud colour. Scalas draws by hand and on screen, and his work leans on geometric forms and modular decorative motifs. The label keeps its supply chain as local as it can and describes the output as made in Italy. Collaboration runs through it. Inveloveritas has held workshops with artists and artisans and has taken part in the Wall of Dolls and in Women United Against Violence, projects on the position of women. The range covers shawls, scarves, T-shirts, beach cloths, paper goods.
Lipari, Sicily, Italy
Exclusive handcrafted items from the Aeolian Islands. Linen shawls woven in traditional fishing net patterns, stone necklaces.
Best for Artisan crafts, Aeolian
La Casa Eoliana began with Francesca Parisi, who was born near Mount Etna and lived in Siena for twenty years before returning to her Sicilian roots. She founded the business on Lipari in 2011 as a concept store devoted to Sicilian culture. The current La Casa Eoliana Care line focuses on skincare and body products made by hand with natural ingredients. Its home on Lipari supplies both the setting and the vocabulary for the collection. Soapmaking provides a direct link between the products and the Aeolian Islands. The company says it has used a traditional cold-process method for fifteen years, followed by four to six weeks of curing. A seven-island series assigns a distinct formula to each island. Filicudi is paired with lemon and mint, Alicudi with prickly pear, Lipari with pumice, Salina with wine, Vulcano with sulphur, Panarea with jasmine, and Stromboli with activated charcoal. Together, the history and the soap series show how a specific island setting shapes both the formulas and their product names.
Perugia / Italy
Museo Atelier Giuditta Brozzetti is a working hand-weaving atelier in Perugia's former church of San Francesco delle Donne, producing table runners, cushions, and scarves on antique looms using centuries-old Perugian patterns like Griffin and Pomegranate. Its online shop sells the handwoven pieces worldwide alongside guided tours of the museum floor.
Best for Weaving atelier, Handwoven Textiles, Table Linens, Scarves
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