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Italy Silk Spinning Mill, Italy - September 2024

The_Raw

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This was the first stop on a recent trip to Italy. Torrential rain and an excessive amount of brambles made things a bit tricky, but we managed to cut our way through to the mill eventually. It seemed as though we were the first people to visit in quite a while. Inside was a dreamy mixture of industrial relics surrounded by years of decay.

The mill dates back to the early 19th century and remained in operation until the 1960s. Silk mills use a process called reeling to extract silk from silkworm cocoons. Amazingly, despite being abandoned for around 60 years, it still contains all of its original machinery, as well as some silkworm cocoons used for producing the silk. On top of that there is zero vandalism, which is pretty incredible by today's standards. It would make a great little museum but that seems unlikely at this time. It was a nice and chilled explore but before leaving I had a peek through one of the windows of the connecting house, which we'd been noisily trying to access from inside. I was amazed to see evidence of people living inside, so on that note we decided to foxtrot oscar, swiftly!

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Grazie per aver guardato.​
 
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