Bottega Veneta’s weave began, the story goes, because local machines couldn’t sew hides.
When Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro opened a leather workshop in Vicenza in 1966, the sewing machines sold locally were built for soft cloth, not heavy hides. So they sliced leather into thin strips and hand-laced them into a woven lattice. That workaround became the intrecciato weave, still the signature of a house that sells €1.7 billion a year.
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