Florentine textile

WHO WE ARE

BIRTH

Mario Becagli founded Tessile Fiorentina, from the idea that a circular machine for the production of pile fabrics, seen during a trip to the United States, could produce an innovative fabric: ecological fur. The first plant of Tessile Fiorentina includes a park of 6 circular machines, produces 540 meters per day of pile and knitted fabrics and has 7 workers. The Tessile Fiorentina of Mario Becagli & Co, a Simple Limited Company, soon became a Spa and continues to grow, becoming a reference point for the Italian and international textile market.

REVOLUTION

In the 1970s, the Prato-based company carried out a small revolution: by modifying one of its machines, it invented the recycled pile technique, a particular process that allows diversification in production and an expansion of the offer, thus giving life to the new line of fabrics by boiled wool.

EVOLUTION

In the 1980s, fleece spread on the American markets, a fabric with exceptional technical characteristics, suitable for facing extreme climatic situations. Tessile Fiorentina immediately realizes its potential and specializes in its production, thus managing to establish itself with this product on world markets. In the following years, Tessile Fiorentina fine-tuned the production of coated, “coupled” and imitation leathers, sectors which are still evolving today.

TODAY

Today a new generation of Becagli leads the company, bringing the lifeblood of the new millennium to a tradition that has been able to build a reality on intuition, craftsmanship and passion.