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Omega Gloves

Via Stella, 12, Napoli (Napoli)

Guantificio Omega 
Data/ora chiusura iscrizioni: venerdì 18 ottobre 2024 16:00:00

Laboratorio / Atelier Pelletteria

At number 12 in via Stella, in the Rione Sanità, in the heart of old Naples, there is an imposing four-storey building. To enter the world of the Squillace family's gloves, you have to go up the stairs and follow the scent of coffee: the atmosphere feels like home. The doors of the laboratory open while the rhythm is marked by the noise of the Singers, the sewing machines still in operation in front of the large windows. Gloves are everywhere. The walls covered with photographs, clippings and drawings tell the story of a centuries-old tradition.

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Alberto Squillace

Via Stella, 12, Napoli (Napoli)

Where gloves have been made by hand for more than a hundred years. It was 1923 when Gennaro Squillace founded Omega in the city once known as the capital of the glove, in the Sanità district. In Naples the welcome is given by Alberto Squillace, the fifth generation of the family's maitre gantier. A journey that starts from tanning on the slopes of Vesuvius and continues in the selection of fine leather such as plongè lamb, peccary, carpinchos and deer. Then the cutting (without waste) in the laboratory on the wooden tables which still bear the marks of the tools of a century of craft, up to the sewing of the silk and cashmere linings. There are over twenty-five steps necessary to create an artful glove according to the unit of measurement in French inches (whereby each inch is equivalent to one twelfth of a Charlemagne foot). Among the drawings for the latest models, the ongoing projects for high fashion houses or the shipments ready for Japan up to the family photographs hanging on the walls. The charm of Omega is all on the fourth floor of number 12 via Stella.

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