Handcraft Museum
Perhaps to call it a Museum is a slight exaggeration, we can say that it concerns however wonderful evidence of a handcraft activity (until the first decades of the twentieth century) now completely disappeared, that of the blacksmith-wheelwright of which my grandfather (founder) firstly and my father after were valid practitioners.
In spite of contrary requirements, we have tried with constancy to keep as intact as possible the environment of those times, their activity, the machinery, the varied tools and the spare parts. All modifications and unavoidable modernisations realised over the course of time have always had as a priority to alter as little as possible the premises. Although the details in the photos represent tools that can be found in any museum or old workshop of Italy, I wanted to include them in the site for their incomparable emotional value.
Grandfather’s old blacksmith-wheelwright workshop
Obviously to call it a Museum is a little excessive but it is suggestive testimony of an ancient handicraft activity that nowadays has surely disappeared
Group of old machines: In the image in close-up the mortise to make holes and grooves, on the right of the old water wheel for the precise sharpening of all the cutting tools, on the left the old big drill and the emery wheel.
The hammer
A close-up of the old hammer where my grandfather firstly and my father after cut, bent, modeled and transformed tons of iron
