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Atzara offers a variety of artisan productions to visitors. Creativity and craftsmanship of
local artisans generates unique and precious items from simple materials such as wool, wood and
leather. Wooden tools and pieces of furniture, once simply making part of daily life, have now
become real works of art.
The century-old carpet and tapestry tradition comes back to life in the narrow streets of the
old centre, echoing with the noise of old wooden looms operated by weavers.
Nature, too, is the inspirer of techniques making handicrafts more precious. Indeed, a few
young artisans from Atzara have reinvented the ancient dying methods for wool and silk: green,
yellow, red, brown, blue, black are obtained by using vegetal species and whatever nature has to
offer – madder, nut hull, myrtle, daphne, alder bark, pomegranate rind, helichrysum and wild
lavender (and even cochineal, a pest), which maintain their scent even onto finished garments.
