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Techno Hands

Today, being a craftsman means knowing how to draw on various resources. It’s necessary to have a lot of skills and knowledge regarding both the processing techniques and the tools used in the workshop, many of them obviously faithful to the past traditions. Dexterity is always the starting point to create a unique piece. In the …

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Fondazione Lisio pochette

Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio

We are on the hills just outside Florence in a place that encompasses a love of tradition, fine manufacturing, high education, a center for research, restoration and culture. The co-protagonists of this adventure are the manual Jacquard looms of the late 19th century; the loom setters with their attention and skill; the weavers with their …

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impiraresse venezia unesco

The Impiraresse: passion, tenacity, perseverance

Thanks to 8 women, a profession that has deep feminine roots becomes “The Art of Glass Pearls” an intangible UNESCO ICH heritage. We are in Veneto, especially in the popular Castello-Venice district, and already between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women strung pearls, in the impirar dialect, near their homes. The impiraresse usually gathered in …

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