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DESCRIPTION: The iron plough with four ploughshares is called “tillaru” in the Sicilian dialect and it is necessary for the animal-drawn ploughing. It is used from ancient times and it is still used today if not replaced by the tractors, in order to prepare the following workings of the ground or directly for the sowing. […]

DESCRIPTION: It is called “tularu a manu” in the Sicilian dialect and once it was used to create the tissues. The elements that created it (the weft and the warp’s weave) were manoeuvred both manually or by feet independently one from each other. The Handloom was collocated in a domestic or craft space. To use this object it […]

Normal measures of the double bed obtained from the unification of the two head-boards (“spaddieri”) and two footboards of a single bed. The four elements that compound it are decorated with oil painting, with female figures of a very delicate aspect and movements and green/pink floral patterns. The bed, that is called “lettu granni” (big bed) in the Sicilian […]

DESCRIPTION: It is a domestic tool called “tannuriedda” in the Sicilian dialect that served to heat up the food or something else. The cooker consists of a cylindrical base containing the coals with two holes in the anterior part. On such cylindrical base there is a baked clay pan or vase covered by a light iron scaffolding, provided with […]

The object is an ancient gramophone used in the domestic ambiance to reproduce the musical disks. The body is made of wood, with support for the disk and a crank to activate its movement. The reproduction happens after having put the little arm on the disk’s rim. The gramophone spreads the sound through an external metal trumpet. Once, those […]

DESCRIPTION: The coal-fired coffee roaster is called “atturra café a carvanieddu” in the Sicilian dialect, and once it served to toast the coffee beans. The tool made of plate is provided with a little cooking stove where the coal is fired and on which there is a cylinder necessary to contain the toasted coffee beans. The cylinder was manually […]

DESCRIPTION: It’s an ancient rural tool that works by manual pushing on two wheels: while it goes on, it lets fall the seed with a regular distance through a specially lever. It is a very important tool for the peasant because of the fact that the sowing process is composed by a sequence of operations as the act […]

DESCRIPTION: The handicraft wooden object with leather upholstery has a double function: it is a rocket baby’s chair for little babies with high edges, supporting a structure on which it is possible to put some food and the toys, a fall-protection system of hooks and a special hole on the chair. The back becomes a plane on which […]

DESCRIPTION: This copper and iron tool was used for the alcohol’s combustion inside the domestic walls but also in the labs, and it was called “spiritiera”. It consists of a spherical cruet/container where the alcohol is put and reaches the level of combustion inside the metal base. It is provided with a washer for the stocking’s regulation and it […]

DESCRIPTION: In the Sicilian dialect it is called “manticiu di fuorgia” and it was used in the forges to blow over the coals in order to reinforce the flame. The object is a leather bag that blows some air and is composed by two flat wooden parts linked to a leather bellows provided with a narrow tube. The […]