OUR STORY
Farella Capri is a family story that began on the island of Capri in 1990, when four sisters turned their passion for knitting and craftsmanship into a shared project.
Today, a new generation has joined them. Once again, entirely female.
Farella is a story of mothers and daughters, women and artisans, brought together by the same passion for their work and for things made with care.
Over the years, this story has continued to evolve through tradition, study and an ever-deepening knowledge of knitting and weaving.
Each creation takes shape slowly, through skilled hands and processes that preserve the value of time. Experience is combined with an ongoing exploration of fibres and techniques, creating pieces in which sensitivity and craftsmanship become part of the material itself.
To look at a Farella piece is to see beyond its surface: to recognise the time, the gestures and, above all, the hands that made it.
ROOTED IN CAPRI
Capri is more than the place where Farella was born.
The island holds a lesser-known textile history, woven for centuries into its everyday life.
Spinning and weaving were once part of domestic life on Capri, particularly among women, who worked with natural fibres such as linen and hemp and passed their knowledge from one generation to the next.
In the early twentieth century, this domestic tradition also acquired a new social and economic significance. Initiatives such as La Tessitrice dell’Isola, founded by Edwin Cerio in the 1920s, transformed the textile skills of Caprese women into work that could offer them a degree of economic independence.
It is within this history that Farella recognises its roots.
Our aim is not simply to preserve a tradition, but to keep it alive — to understand its knowledge, safeguard its gestures and bring them into the present through a contemporary language.
Because a tradition remains alive when it continues to be practised, interpreted and transformed.