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Biella

Wool at the Foot of the Alps
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Biella's mills use soft water from the Alps that takes dye and washes wool without hardness, which is why the finest suiting cloth — Zegna, Loro Piana, Cerruti — comes from a small province at the foot of the mountains. Zegna planted a road of half a million conifers above his mill in the 1930s and opened it to the public.

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