A tiny workshop producing silk for customers such as the White House and the Pope is one of the last remaining to practice the centuries-old craft in Caserta, in the heart of Italy. 

In the late 18th century, King Ferdinand IV of Naples of the House of Bourbon built a summer resort close to the Royal Palace north of Naples in San Leucio. He turned this resort, Belvedere Palace, into a silk factory, and built a community around that with 3,000 inhabitants.