Fibre
Long-staple and undyed at intake, sorted by hand into eleven natural tones before a single thread is spun.
Colle Marengo · Umbria · since 1974
Cashmere that learns the shape of a life.
Four generations of hand-finishing in one Umbrian workshop. Fifty-eight pieces a day, no more — thread keeps its own pace, and we have never found a decent way to hurry it.
The house
Fifty-eight pieces a day, and not one more.
Marengo began in 1974 in a converted grain store on the hill at Colle Marengo, forty minutes above Perugia. Two rooms, eleven people, a single linking machine. The building is larger now and the machines are quieter, but the daily count has barely moved.
We buy fibre once a year from the same four herds, and we let the cloth rest between stages — a habit inherited from the founder's mother, who held that knitwear, like bread, is ruined by hurry.
Hand
Every seam is linked by a person. Every finished piece is worn for an hour by the person who made it, then folded.
Time
Six weeks from spin to shelf. We have twice been asked to halve it, and have twice declined.
1974The first room
58Pieces per day
11Undyed tones
6 wksSpin to shelf
Concept
The Marengo Stylist.
A small experiment in how a house might advise from a distance. Three questions, one composed look, drawn from a fixed catalogue of forty pieces.
Styling suggestions are illustrative — a concept demonstration. There is no model and no network request; everything runs in your browser.
Where is this going to be worn?
Question one of three
Choose one to continue.
Which way should the colour lean?
Question two of three
Choose one to continue.
And how heavy should it feel?
Question three of three
Choose one to see the look.
One moment
Composing the look…
Your look
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The four pieces—
The collection
Autumn, in eleven undyed tones.
Nothing here is dyed to match a season. The colours are the colours the fibre arrived in, sorted by eye on a table beside the window.