For Milan Design Week 2026, Missoni is not presenting a new collection or a concept store. It is presenting a machine. The Slow Art of Craft is an immersive installation at Via Solferino 9 in Milan, open to the public from April 21 to 26 between 11am and 10pm, built entirely around the Caperdoni, one of the most iconic and closely guarded tools in the maison’s creative heritage.

The Machine That Makes Missoni, Missoni

The Caperdoni machine is used exclusively by Missoni, preserved with care and not replicated elsewhere in the industry. The process begins by hand: artisans interlace between 600 and 1,200 threads to create bobbins, the foundational building blocks of the fabric. Those bobbins are then fed into the Caperdoni, which transforms the hand assembled, multicoloured spools into the richly textured, vibrant textile surfaces that have defined Missoni‘s visual identity for decades. The machine, by design, takes its…