1500

In the sixteenth century Ludovico Sforza, called il Moro, granted to the Corbetta Family, through a long term lease, the enjoyment of a huge territory at Garbagnate Monastero, in order to develop a silk culture activity.
The production of silk has always required very large areas of quite varied crops, in order to establish an adequate relationship between the natural cycle of the silkworm (Bombyx Mori) and the cycle of mulberry plant, enabling the Bombyx Mori to obtain its nourishment.
For this reason, since the very beginning, all the lands situated around small villages owned by the Corbetta Family, carrying large quantities of cereal crops and mulberry bushes, were used to produce mulberry leaves and the cocoons which were placed into reserve (concentration of the cocoons) to be spun after drying (reeling of the silk).

1586

All these operations have continuously fulfilled at Garbagnate Monastero from the sixteenth century onwards (certainly before 1586, because there are traces of the development of this activity dating from that year) until 1947.
The building in which the activity began is at present the residence of the Boselli Family. In two rooms, you can find large fireplaces which, in the ancient organisation of the work, were used to heat the water which was needed to soften the sericin, in order to allow the unwinding of the thread from the cocoons. On one of these fireplaces, people can admire the arms of the Corbetta Family, showing three cocoon baskets, and on the side, the date 1586. This silk reeling activity has been carried on in this same place, periodically enlarged over the centuries.
The growth of this activity progressed in parallel with that of technological developments; water heating was no longer performed separately in the fireplaces, but directly under the vats, and later in a boiler, and piped into the vats. At the same time, the control of the linear density (thickness of the yarn) which had always been performed manually, was integrated and afterwards replaced by systems which simultaneously improved its quality, its regularity and its production.

1798

In 1798, the activity passed under the control of the Butti Family, following the marriage of Marina Francesca Teresa Fortunata Corbetta and Carlo Ambrogio Giuseppe Baldassarre Butti.

1894

In 1894, a new and important development took place: the Boselli Family, deeply involved in the silk sector and in the trade and management of industrial activities, joined its activities with those of the Butti Family through the marriage, on 27 April 1886, of Carlo Antonio Pietro Maria Boselli and Gaetana Anna Maria Butti. Thanks to this marriage, the company introduced an important innovation to the silk reeling activity by adding industrial throwing.

1947

The silk reeling activity continued until 1947, when for economic reasons the enterprise, in addition to silk throwing, began to develop the throwing of cellulosic yarns, such as viscose.

1956

In 1956, Carlo Boselli, father of Mario Boselli, the present Chairman of the Group, showed boldness and innovation by introducing the production of synthetic yarns such as polyamide 6 and 66 and later, polyester.

1959

In August, 1959, Mario Boselli entered the family-run company, the Carlo Boselli of Garbagnate Monastero, called today Marioboselli Yarns. He has been in charge since 8 October 1963, when his father, Carlo Boselli, died.

1967

In 1967/68, a new industrial establishment was built at Garbagnate Monastero. During the three following decades, the activity developed in several textile sectors, namely yarns (for knitting, clothing and furnishing materials and technical applications) and knitted fabrics.

2000

In 2000, the Group entered the field of luxury, ready-to-wear clothes for women with its own collection named "Area". Thanks to the use of the new technique of seamless, this collection was rapidly successful.