Who's behind xoxkn.it Studio?

I learned to knit when I was seven. My aunt and uncle had a haute-couture knitwear factory, and for the first years of my life it was my playroom: the cones of yarn, the discs of paraffin, the machines — enormous, back then — and the master knitters, who to me were all 'aunties'. They spoiled me and, without meaning to, they taught me to always look for the flaw in the egg.

I bought my first knitting machine in 1983. Second-hand, and in decidedly poor shape. I made sweaters on it for the paninari.

I never stopped after that. I studied fashion design in Bergamo, and I spent forty years designing knitwear on domestic machines — the same ones I sell, repair and teach people to use today.

And for forty years I designed all of it the old way: highlighters, paper and scissors. Then modernity arrived: Excel.

In the other design fields the tools exist, and they are good. In knitwear they don't. So at a certain point I asked myself which tools I would actually have wanted — and I made them for myself. That's where xoxkn.it Studio came from.

You'll find the machines, the accessories and the spare parts in my shop — and if you want to learn, the online courses are there too.

In 2020 I knitted scarves and sold them. The proceeds went to healthcare workers: more than 20,000 euros. It is one of the things I am most proud of, and it has nothing to do with the software — but if you're still reading, it felt right to tell you.