The Caprotti family and textiles: Jolanda, Marina and the Caprotti goat, 1840 – 1918
The cotton fabrics produced in Albiate regularly arrived in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Brazil. The trademark was a drawing of a goat, a talking symbol that could imprint itself in the memory of customers of Italian origin. The beginning of a story that reaches the present day.
The Caprotti family and water: the cotton mill in Ponte Albiate, 1840 – 2000
The cotton mill, which made the family's wealth possible, was built in Ponte Albiate, on the banks of the Lambro river. Water was the indispensable element of the factory, because it was necessary to set the machines in motion and process the fabrics.
The Caprotti family and the land, the ancient mother of their fortunes
The land of Albiate, in Brianza, was indeed the mother of their fortunes because it was there, at the beginning of the 19th century, that they began to develop the textile business that would later lead to the foundation of Giuseppe Caprotti's Ditta Bernardo Caprotti in 1840.
Le Ossa dei Caprotti advertising, posters and images
The pictures were taken in Rome, Milan, Florence and Albiate
The Caprottis, Manifattura Caprotti and a united Italy
After the Third War of Independence (1866), and in the years that followed, when the Italian economy, after some difficult years, experienced a happy expansion, the company’s radius of action expanded as far as the south of Italy, albeit with considerable difficulty, at least in the early days, due to the lack of a national market.
