Bassetti is an Italian textile company. It was founded in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

in 1830 by Carlo Barboncini, as a textile emporium. In 1840 it opened a hand-weaving factory at

Rescaldina Rescaldina () is a ''comune'' (municipality) that is part of the Metropolitan City of Milan, in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, with a population of 14,211 (as of 1 January 2019) distributed over about 8 km2 (3.1 sq mi) ...

, some 25 km to the north west, which employed around fifty women. Today it forms part of the Zucchi Group, which specialises in the manufacture and distribution of household linen and whose brands include ’Zucchi‘ and ‘Bassetti’ and Mascioni In Italy.‘Zucchi Leads European Market in House Linen and Looks to the Far East’
, ''Italtrade: The Made in Italy Official Portal'' (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade).

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