Handicrafts Sardinia

Thousand secrets
passed down
from generations

Going all around Sardinia, you will have the opportunity to know and to admire handicrafts of different fields: pottery, textiles, the...

The art of copper
passed down
from other peoples
centuries ago

From centuries the copper working characterizes specially the area of Isili. The Museo Civico per l'Arte del Rame e del Tessuto (The Civic...

The shipwrights
and the small
double-ended fishing
boats which sail the sea

By this time are few the craftsmen of wood, who observe the tradition of the forefather in the making of boats, in particular of small...

Lot of silica sand,
but the glass is worked
only in few places

Sardinian populations learned the glass working secrets from their first contact with Phoenicians. However, despite the presence of giant...

Jewels and pendants,
gold is liked
better than silver

Gold joined the tradition of Sardinian jewels during the last centuries. Once silver was much more used than now, because it was extracted...