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  • The thick decoration designed for this patestry made of cotton, silk and golden threads, is woven on a traditional handloom. The alternation of decorative bands and intertwined motifs feature flower vases and lapwings, the typical elements of the precious Sardinian hope chest covers.

  • This precious cotton, silk and golden thread tapestry, is hand-made on a traditional loom. The complex decoration typical of the traditional monstrance, is supported by two stylised figures of human shape. The composition is a collection of precious motifs.

  • This plain and elegant carpet decorated with tone-on-tone diamond-shaped motifs, that is, the traditional rombo pintau design, is inspired by the local weaving tradition, woven on a flat handloom with the a pibiones technique.

  • In this large carpet in natural white Sardinian wool, silk and cotton, the tone-on-tone decoration asymmetrically forms sophisticated geometric solids with experimental pixel effects obtained by increasing and decreasing the density of the artisanal pibiones relief technique.

  • These three decorative panels depict the typical charismatic Sardinian dance, su ballu tundu, rich in archaic rituals and propitiatory meanings, with stylised male and female figures, typical decorative elements of local weaving.

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The traditional textile industry offers a remarkable production, resulting from the mediation between history and traditional knowledge and the needs of contemporary living. The craftsmen working on the island – almost all of them pursuing family traditions, having been trained since they were children in the use of hand looms – now offer a very high quality production, full of archaic memories but, at the same time, featuring a modern design, a reinterpretation of the past to give new life to it. Nowadays, the textiles made in Sardinia feature a distinctive Sardinian character, the core element of Sardinian craftsmanship, but they also offer new shapes, models and materials with a strong and modern personality.