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  • This cushion is woven on a heddle loom like traditional saddlebags, featuring wide loom-woven bands, alternating with black velvet bands and trimmings.

  • This table runner woven with cotton warps and linen woofs on a handloom, is characterized by the use of the a pibiones technique, featuring two side bands, decorated with the a catenella motif, typical of Sardinian weaving tradition, and a hemstitch.

  • This prized necklace realised with wooden beads of different shapes and sizes, hand-painted in bright polychromy is strung so as to realise a free asymmetrical composition on a silk voile ribbon painted with fine watercolours in tonal variations.

  • This tapestry, hand-woven by a skilled artisan on a flat loom, is crafted with the traditional a bagas technique, reinterpreting a rich floral motif typical of Mogoro's tradition. Featuring vivid colours on a neutral field, it is embellished with golden metal threads.

  • This cotton and Sardinian wool carpet is charaterized by staggered stripes of different colours. The fabric is woven on a traditional flat handloom, the pattern is obtained by applying the a pistoccu technique, traditionally used to make saddlebags and doughcloths.

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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.