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Description:  Tool used by carpenters to make joints (mmicciaturi) between two wood planks arranged transversely, usually at 90°, or even with different angles and longitudinally to join two pieces of wood. Of course, this tool was used for wood pieces large enough for the construction of balconies, gates, doors, windows, etc. Instead of the normal […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: It is a cylindrical object whose base was formed by a circular web obtained in this case from the goat-skin’s tanning, while the height, called “arvula”, was made of wood to obtain the circular shape treated with the fire’s flame in order to curve and soften it.

This tool called pack-saddle consisted of a “cannavazza” (heavy cloth) that was sewn as a sack full of straw. It was half-divided with a seam on which was put another piece of cloth called “alona”. At this point, i “vazzani” were put on it, that is this sack was hemmed using some leather and some twine. […]

It is a sack-shaped object formed by a rhombus-shaped stranded rope. The inferior part of the sack was called “cascia da riti”. When this was full, the peasant pressed it and put some “rampuna” (bunches) of straw on it and these poured out from the mouth itself. At this point the peasant took the rope […]

This tool was used from the blacksmiths to forge the iron and make a soldering once the melting temperature was reached. The iron piece to weld, in fact, was put on the fire (coming from the hard coal) inside a basin of cm 60x60x20, and was fed by the bellows linked to it from a […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The object consists of two wooden parts: a longitudinal axis of cm 103 and cm 2,5 of thickness, to the extremity of which there is a sort of semisphere, obtained from the learned hands of the “curatolo” (the farm or a shepherd) through his own knife. It served for the reparation of raw […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: U cardu was a chestnut wood object of a rectangular shape. At the centre of it, at about 28 cm of distance from the extremities, there was a little piece of squared wood on which there were a series of iron nails created inside the blacksmith’s forge. There linen’s production happened through two […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: This tool was used for the honey’s extraction. In spring, the bees collect and carry the nectar of the flowers to the hive and here it is transformed by other bees; then it is used for the construction of hexagonal cells and for the reserves of food. Both the pollen and honey are […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The object consisted of many wooden pieces but that could be replaced with other iron or rubber objects. When necessary, the pieces formed by the “piettica” were assembled. This “piettica” consisted of two pieces of a transversal shape, with a hole addressed to the upper part where there was “a chiavera” that carried […]