We tell you a family story that began… before 1988
Giuseppe Piccoli,
from Worker to Inventor
It's 1943, Giuseppe Piccoli is 11 years old and the eldest of 6 siblings when he loses his father.
So, he leaves school and starts working in the large textile factory of the town, to help his family.
Over the years, Giuseppe learns quickly.
He becomes skilled at his job and catches the attention of his shift chief.
He eventually obtains permission to work only in the morning shift so he can attend night school
to become an Industrial Technician.
He invents a patent for a new type of brake for textile looms which he manages to sell to a Swiss company. With the money gained, he finally manages to buy... a new coat for his mother
and a second-hand Gilera motorcycle.
Bergamo valleys and sewing machines:
a journey between
work and family
With his motorcycle, after work, he travels through the Bergamo valleys
selling the latest Vigorelli sewing machines to the housewives who, at that time,
made their own clothes at home.
In 1957 Giuseppe marries Maria Fassi. Maria is a worker in a shirt factory and, after work,
she helps Giuseppe by teaching housewives how to use the new sewing machine
and selling them bibs and baby shirts that she makes herself.
