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 from many mines of the island. The workshops of Sardinia (...)

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 natural reserves of silica sand, this activity (...)

The Sardinian granite, one of the most wanted stones

The whole Sardinia still keeps the beautiful proofs of working in the stone from prehistory till today: from the megalithic monuments which emerge everywhere to the statuettes representing deities (...)

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 Museum for the Art of Copper and Tissue) learned from foreign populations (...)

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 double-ended fishing boats. We can find some of these in Carloforte (...)

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 working of iron, copper, wood, stone, glass, leather, cork and helophytes, goldsmithery and agricultural and food art. (...)