Il Filatoio - 22/02/2022

A commemorative cache dedicated to the date of 02/22/2022 composed practically of only 2 and moreover pure palindrome!
In front of it there is an old building, it is "the spinning wheel", an ancient factory that gives its name to the neighborhood, now owned by a large furniture factory and actually rather run down. In 1878 the spinning machines in Druento were in reality two, perhaps three and employed about 300 workers.

Sericulture was practiced at a family level, with it appeared in the countryside the mulberry trees whose leaves served as nourishment for the silkworms, planted to mark the boundaries between the lands, were then gradually demolished almost all because they were an obstacle to modern mechanized vehicles. to agricultural production, sericulture is true that it improved the meager family budgets, but it certainly did not help the already precarious hygienic conditions of the houses, since to maximize earnings, they took care of all the spaces and environments with the "bigat" inhabited, including kitchen.