Stampa su Seta di Como
The printing of designs onto silk fabric using screen-printing, rotary printing, and hand-finishing techniques in the Como district — the world's primary center of luxury silk fabric printing — supplying printed silk to virtually every major fashion house globally and requiring extraordinary color management, registration precision, and finishing knowledge.
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An ancient tradition of unglazed and slip-decorated terracotta from Basilicata — including functional ware, decorative objects, and the characteristic fischietti (clay whistles in animal and human form) — rooted in the region's pre-Greek…
A silk weaving tradition in Calabria — historically among Italy's primary silk-producing regions — producing plain silks, damasks, and velvets on hand looms, sustained by mulberry cultivation along the Ionian coast, and now a critically…
The fabrication of eyewear frames in the Belluno valley — a district producing approximately 25% of the world's high-end eyewear — combining precision acetate cutting, metalwork, and hand-finishing in a hybrid artisan-industrial system…
A tradition of fine silk cloth weaving in and around Asolo (Treviso) using hand and semi-mechanized looms, associated with the historic silk road networks channeled through Venice — now largely absorbed into the Como district but retaining…
A tradition of relief and in-the-round woodcarving in the Trentino-Alto Adige region, producing devotional sculpture, architectural ornamentation, and decorative objects in styles ranging from Gothic devotional to Alpine folk, using Swiss…
A specialized tradition within Val Gardena woodcarving focused on articulated wooden figures, animals, nativity sets (presepi), and mechanical toys — historically exported globally through pedlar networks, representing one of the most…
Nishijin-ori (西陣織) is Japan's supreme silk weaving tradition — centered in the Nishijin district of Kyoto and producing the obi sash and kimono fabric for court, theatrical, and ceremonial use for over 1,200 years.
Shan silk weaving is the broad textile tradition of the Shan State plateau — practiced by multiple ethnic communities centered on Inle Lake including Shan, Pa-O, Intha, and Danu weavers.
The United States side of the cross-border Coast Salish weaving tradition (see CRAFT-1712 for the Canadian/British Columbia side), practiced by Coast Salish nations around Puget Sound and the wider Salish Sea in Washington State, using the…
The cutting and sewing of made-to-measure shirts, trousers and suits in Singapore by family-run shophouse tailors, a trade built by Chinese migrant tailors from the 1880s.
Pa-O textile weaving is the identity textile tradition of the Pa-O people (ပအိုဝ်း) — the second-largest ethnic group in Shan State — producing the immediately recognizable black-ground cloth with orange and red supplementary weft stripes…
Tatami (畳) mat making is the craft of producing Japan's traditional floor covering — a composite structure of rice straw base (床 toko), woven rush surface (ゴザ goza — from igusa rush, Juncus effusus), and decorative border tape (縁 heri).