Years ago, Andrea Trinchieri bought a few alpacas to help mow his lawn, but soon he and his wife Nadia Foglia had installed spinning machines at home and were selling their yarn and knitwear as a full-time job.
They do it all – shearing, cleaning, carding, spinning, weaving, and even a bit of dying (with plants) – so the final product is what they call “kilometer zero.”
Initially, it wasn’t easy to find equipment for their small batch farm; their first purchase was a carding machine from 1890. Over time, Andrea has built custom parts for the machines and even a computer-assisted wooden loom.
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Awesome! Thanks for this video … Beautiful and educational
The addressable LEDs in the foot-pedals 15:15 and the light-strip in the Reed/Beater 16:06 to see the weave better.. genius.
OMG what a talented family! My other feeling is how untalented this made me feel …the chap built that weave loom and renovated that house …What a lovely life this family have …now I have to go and write another work report 😂
How special! Beautiful family! Such passion care and attention for what they do. Every detail is attended to. Amazing and inspiring ❤️🇮🇹
as always great job
I swear these Alpacas look Peruvian to me…
What a delightful family! They love their animals and produce very high quality products from them.
How dreamy living this full circle craft. So much love infused with joys of animals and the handmade machines! From nurturing then sheering wool to carting and spinning for the amazing looms to weave fine clothes! Every step is amazing! You are living many peoples dream. Yours is a very busy dream.
I love humble people who make no big show about their extraordinary talents…
The stories you show through your videos are full oof passionate people living a life of fulfilment.
Beautiful family! Beautiful place!
Thanks for the content you provide!
🌷Sam 🇨🇦
This one was so nice 🙂
Fascinating family and their wool products are beautiful. We need more people like these in the world.
even the dogs were kissing the alpacas in the last few seconds! so much peace, love, and joy! the people love the alpacas. the alpacas love each other, the people, and the dog. the people love their lives. this is the perfect definition of beauty. I want this! I think I will just rewind and watch it again, lol.
What an interesting and innovative and ambitious and down to earth family.
I love knowing that there are families dedicated to continuing "simple" crafts. When you first introduced the CAD Loom, I immediate thought of Jacquard but never expected to see the world's first computer in this video! You doubly made this nerd's day
The alpacas are cute in an ugly sorta way.
It's Lassie! 🐕
I always look forward to your videos.
Life is never as happy as it looks on film.
My goodness, I have recently researched the history of the development of textile technology. Their machines are very interesting, nice engineers. awesome work. Very interesting family.
With your eyes, your passion….but if you are blind….then be careful what another says your passion may be. For most, it is MONEY. When blind, really actually blind, what can one's passion or money be? YOU CAN"T SAY.
Do you stop the animals from touching the ground so the wool i s"pure"? Do you durg the animals to take the wool from them? Do you stop to think that you are an ass hole, bred to make money? "this is ….kilos…but industry work…..lilos…. at 450…..better if we work from 5000 800 kilos….Use the animal for the wool so we can take advantage of the animal and the people so we can get richa….I justa smila so I can a acta thata I a give a shita………..no matter what you do you die. Flesh to ash. In the meanwhile, make MONEY.
Cool how the animals came into the building to inspect how their contribution is being processed.
How can we purchase their beautiful products! That cream colored long sweater was just beautiful!
Very nice video, thank you to everyone involved for sharing with us.
I am so impressed with this lovely family! True artists.
Can someone post a link to buy their products, please?
I agree with all comments, this is such a beautiful story, thank you.
He is right, the first computer was based on the Jacquard loom…the punch cards were based on the cardboard cards for the patterns… They are true makers ! Wonderful family…