The Italian town of Prato is home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe. In this textile center, the Chinese have created a parallel, off-the-books economy — hiring illegal ...

A militant union is escalating an unusual wave of strikes in the city of Prato — Italy's so-called textile capital — where ...

Prato's history in textiles stretches back centuries; it even has a museum devoted to textiles. But as Italian companies have struggled, the Chinese have prospered.

The Italian town of Prato is home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe. In this textile center, the Chinese have created a parallel, off-the-books economy — hiring illegal ...

When the flourishing Prato textile industry needed cheap labor in the 1980s, Italians knew where to turn, because they had established relationships in outsourcing to Wenzhou, in the Zhejiang ...

During the Renaissance, Prato was renowned for its wools and silks, and to this day, one of Prato's major industries is textiles. But this has grown to include things like alpaca and camel wools ...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 9 - Thousands of umbrella-toting residents and tourists braved the rain to mark the Chinese New Year in Prato Sunday, the Tuscan city with the highest percentage of Chinese ...

Prato is not the first city that springs to mind when Tuscan travel plans are hatched. To say that it lives in the shadow of Florence, 20 minutes away by train, is something of an understatement.

This leaves a big question: is a sustainable paradigm shift still possible? Italy's 'textile town': a leader in wool recycling The Italian city of Prato is no stranger to wool recycling.

But while the Chinese flourished, Prato textile companies dropped from 7,000 to 4,000 in just one decade. As Chinese wealth grew, Italian resentment spread.