Carpet Sales

When you buy a handmade carpet you buy a prestigious object just like a picture made by an important painter, which alone is able to make beautiful and unique every place. The peculiarity of the patterns encounters a selected quality of fabric coming from a long and laborious process, careful to the preservation of the characteristics of each fabric, whether it’s wool, linen or cotton.

That’s the reason why our handmade textiles are surprisingly time resistant. A quality we are not used anymore today.

Besides a handmade production today we find now an industrial production, which produces carpets and clothes of traditional inspiration but created with modern looms and low quality fabrics.

To an inexpert eye an industrial textile could appear similar to a handmade one, just like a copy compared to the original work of art; but it is important to underline the uniqueness of a handmade carpet and its unquestionable superior quality.

In our firm the textiles are made only with hand looms, and each product has its own, different and unrepeatable, peculiarity.

Each handmade product can be customized; craftsmanship in facts allows to realise customized products to satisfy every single request.

The basic instrument for this job is the loom, used for every kind of textile, including tapestries, blankets, furniture mats, and particularly carpets.

The weaving consists in the interweaving a series of threads, called warp, kept parallel and tight with another series called weft. The weft threads are wrapped on a proper shuttle and fixed at the first thread of the warp are then inserted among the odds and evens of the latter.

This operation is called “passata” (a run) and is made with a comb, or a similar instrument, to compress the textile uniformly.

The ‘grain’ or "a pibiones" technique (particularly spread in the central and eastern areas of the island): this method is performed by twisting the yarn around a needle which is arranged in a horizontal position on the loom; the needle is then pulled away, thereby creating a raised effect (grains). These grains are fastened by the weft threads and are fixed in position by one or more strokes of the beater;

The range of decorative elements is quite long, from geometric patterns to animal and vegetable subjects, symbolical elements and human figures of the Sardinian tradition. It has indeed been established that more than 100 recurring motifs and symbols are represented in the popular Sardinian art of textile weaving: more than 100 symbolic motifs and 20 different "mustras" (central decorative elements), each of which bears a particular name and is characterised by a particular history, evocative capacity and underlying ‘magical’ significance.

Ornate and mustras make the handmade textile an original product, absolutely unique.