Traditional crafts and marble workshop
Many have been lost in time, but in Tuscany artisan
laboratories have survived even if with hard work, and carry on
ancient trades such as the work with skins and leather, wrought
iron, frame carving, production of ceramics and majolica,
embroidery of linens, book binding, brocade and damask weaving,
and the patient refined working of precious metals, of marbles,
of glass, the stone carving, passed down from the rare and
unreachable work of the “Scagliola” (stone flake). Certain of
these can be found in every city and town in Tuscany. Traditional craft and marble workshop
In the alleyways of the centre, more or less hidden, there are
artisan laboratories, modern representatives of the glorious
past of minor art, executors of refined goods famous in the
world. Traditional craft and marble workshop
It is a real pleasure to walk in these streets, peeping into
the workshops where the ancient noises are jumbled up with the
memory of the taste and culture of the whole of Toscana.
