It’s official: after telling you about our partnership with Maeko Filati for natural fibers and our Sopravissana sheep farm in Lazio, today we’re introducing the third piece of the supply chain we’re building for the fall-winter 2026/27 collection. Lanaioli is launching a partnership with Re.Verso™, the Italian supply chain for recovering and regenerating cashmere and other fine fibers: the yarns reach us through our partner Filpucci in Campi Bisenzio (FI).
Why regenerated cashmere
Those who have been following us for some time know that our short wool supply-chain project was born from a very concrete problem: in Italy, shearing wool has lost almost all of its economic value, to the point that it is often considered an expensive waste product to dispose of rather than a resource. With Re.Verso, we are addressing a parallel but opposite problem: not wool that no one wants to collect, but cashmere and other fine fibers at risk of becoming waste.
Instead of allowing these fibers to end up in landfill, the Re.Verso supply chain recovers them, sorts them by color and composition, and transforms them into new regenerated cashmere yarns, ready to be knitted, with GRS certification and product traceability. This is not a second-rate by-product: it is real cashmere beginning a second life, with the same softness and warmth expected from this fiber.
For a small brand like ours, working with partners who share the same focus on raw-material traceability cannot be taken for granted: it means being able to honestly explain where every thread comes from, instead of simply writing “sustainable” on a label.
A third pillar, the same philosophy
With this partnership, our sustainable knitwear offering is now built on three distinct but coherent pillars: short-supply-chain merino wool, sourced from farms in central Italy (including our own); fine natural fibers developed with Maeko Filati (organic cotton, hemp, linen, Himalayan nettle, yak); and now Re.Verso regenerated yarns, which allow us to offer cashmere garments without requiring new virgin fiber.
These are different paths leading to the same destination: reducing the environmental impact of the knitwear we produce, without ever compromising on the quality of the finished garment. Whether we are raising an endangered sheep breed ourselves or giving cashmere a second life, the underlying principle remains the same: buy less, choose better, and always know where what you wear comes from.
What we’ll tell you about in the coming days
This week, we’re dedicating two more articles to this new collaboration. On Wednesday, we’ll take a detailed look at the production process: how recovered cashmere is actually turned into regenerated yarn ready to be knitted. On Friday, we’ll talk numbers: how much water, energy, and CO2 emissions are really saved by choosing regenerated rather than virgin yarn, and why the textile-waste problem is not merely a local issue, but one that affects entire economies, often far from the spotlight of the countries where those clothes were produced and discarded.
For now, welcome to our supply chain, Re.Verso: another step in the journey we’re building, one yarn at a time. Discover how our regenerated cashmere is made.
