Trade- or craftspeople who created silk cloth by weaving threads together. Silk would be harvested, cleaned, carded, dyed, and then spun into thread. Weavers would then use a loom to weave the threads together to form fabrics. This generally refers to a trade active from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution when the process was taken up by machine looms.
Silvestro Pinelli was a Genoese merchant who was active during the fifteenth century. He was born was Silvestro Dentuto, was later ascribed into the Scipionibus albergo, then finally ascribed into the Pinelli albergo in 1463.
