Made in Italy - Handcraft quality on show at Modena

Man, home, things, taste: these are the four themes dealt with at "Artigiana Italiana", organized at Modena fair, on 10 thousand sq. metres space and with over one hundred fifty exhibitors. The visitors could admire cloths and top-quality items, but even jewels, precious furniture, pictures, mirrors, curtains and some typical food, everything was "made in Italy" thanks to our handcraft-masters. For Emilia Romagna there were pottery, cloths, wrought iron manufactures, but even hand worked enlighten signs. There were very particular items as the working of historical leather that is to say the lining repair of medieval armours and of the internal part of swords' scabbards. Artex, the centre of artistic and traditional handcraft from Tuscany, brought to the fair its' handcraft gallery that exhibited the production of unique pieces and/or small series, often numbered, always top quality level and of high value, which belong to a market niche. The Consorzio Artistico Trentino ( an Artistic Consort from a northern region- Trentino) presented several items: from simple and humble wooden objects ( home tools of rural origin as the mestolo- a wooden spoon- or the " Canarola" with " el tabiel"- tools to cook polenta- or " el brentel" used for sauerkrauts) to more refined objects decorated by hand with antique techniques and original graphic solutions. There was also Sardinia with an area called Gal dell'Ogliastra: these lands, in the centre of the south-eastern coast of the island, constitute an area placed between the mountains of Gennargentu and the Tyrrhenian sea, where nature and genuineness still survive. This region obviously presented its typical food: from the precious extra- virgin olive oil to the numerous types of bread.