“Our origins can be traced quite far back in time. Family documents (…) testify that The Caprotti family purchased the first lands in Albiate as early as 1685: ‘The earth is the mother of all things, the ancients used to say. (…) the land was truly the mother, never forgotten or repudiated, of the Caprotti family’s fortunes’ wrote historian Roberto Romano (…). It was there, on the land they owned, that the Caprotti family began to develop their textile business in the early 19th century, distributing their yarns to weavers scattered throughout the countryside, from whom they received the finished product which they then resold. They were more merchants than industrialists, until the Ditta Bernardo Caprotti di Giuseppe was officially founded in 1840, which owned some elementary machinery for the preparation of cotton yarn. (…) “. (p. 22).
