Mariantonia Urru
Manufacturer Samugheo / Italy
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Mariantonia Urru is an entrepreneur who gives new life to the tradition of her land, by contaminating it with the sensitivity of the present and with the collaboration with customers. Mariantonia Urru gives to weaving of her carpets multiple meanings: a link between past and present, a link between innovation and tradition, as for tradition of making. Mariantonia Urru looks to the future, maintaining a quality of product and crafts that originally belongs to the past and which are a great heritage of technical and cultural value. Mariantonia Urru opens the door to the collaboration with international designers, supporting them in the research of technical solutions and supporting the various formal results. Mariantonia Urru intends to promote the territory by making sharing of knowledge and communication the basis of its innovative path.
For carpets and pillows, Mariantonia Urru uses wool, cotton, linen and silk, but also metal threads for some experimental protects. Choosing suppliers is fundamental. By dealing with handcrafted products, Mariantonia Urru needs raw material qualitatively perfect, suitable for weaving frames and functional to the design itself. As for the wool, which feeds 80% of the production, she follows the entire supply chain, starting from the harvest, which takes place exclusively in Sardinia. Technicians select the raw material in the sheepfolds. Then the washing, carding, dyeing, and spinning are carried out, these processes are entrusted to contractors. Finally, starting from the single garment of the yarn, they combine different materials to obtain a specific one with unique characteristics. They experiment by mixing fibers and colors, starting from single garments of yarns to obtain different shades, mélanges.
Pibiones technique is realized through the use of bars to which a large wool weft is wrapped around. This passage creates a very compact curl, reminiscent of a small grape, which in the dialect of Sardinia is called "Pibione". The result is a very heavy fabric, 5 to 10 mm thick-depending on the size of weft and irons, characterized by a dotted texture.
Piana technique is made with an extra texture, also very large, raised for long or short periods, usually not more than a few centimeters in order not to compromise the strength of the fabric. It is lighter and thinner compared with the one in Pibiones, its thickness varies from 3 to 5 mm — depending on the title of the weave used, and is characterized by a linear texture.
All the carpets are handmade by expert weavers who have acquired, after a period of apprenticeship of over two years, the manual skills necessary to guarantee a high level of production quality. During the period of apprenticeship the weaver refines the manual skills using one or both of the two traditional techniques, Pibiones technique and Piana technique, both realized by processing of coarse wool plots on a base consisting of the simple and regular intertwining of thin threads of cotton warp and weft. The combination of the two techniques, thanks to the composition and the interweaving of the dotted and the linear texture fields, allows a wide variety of effects and visual expressions.
For carpets and pillows, Mariantonia Urru uses wool, cotton, linen and silk, but also metal threads for some experimental protects. Choosing suppliers is fundamental. By dealing with handcrafted products, Mariantonia Urru needs raw material qualitatively perfect, suitable for weaving frames and functional to the design itself. As for the wool, which feeds 80% of the production, she follows the entire supply chain, starting from the harvest, which takes place exclusively in Sardinia. Technicians select the raw material in the sheepfolds. Then the washing, carding, dyeing, and spinning are carried out, these processes are entrusted to contractors. Finally, starting from the single garment of the yarn, they combine different materials to obtain a specific one with unique characteristics. They experiment by mixing fibers and colors, starting from single garments of yarns to obtain different shades, mélanges.
Pibiones technique is realized through the use of bars to which a large wool weft is wrapped around. This passage creates a very compact curl, reminiscent of a small grape, which in the dialect of Sardinia is called "Pibione". The result is a very heavy fabric, 5 to 10 mm thick-depending on the size of weft and irons, characterized by a dotted texture.
Piana technique is made with an extra texture, also very large, raised for long or short periods, usually not more than a few centimeters in order not to compromise the strength of the fabric. It is lighter and thinner compared with the one in Pibiones, its thickness varies from 3 to 5 mm — depending on the title of the weave used, and is characterized by a linear texture.
All the carpets are handmade by expert weavers who have acquired, after a period of apprenticeship of over two years, the manual skills necessary to guarantee a high level of production quality. During the period of apprenticeship the weaver refines the manual skills using one or both of the two traditional techniques, Pibiones technique and Piana technique, both realized by processing of coarse wool plots on a base consisting of the simple and regular intertwining of thin threads of cotton warp and weft. The combination of the two techniques, thanks to the composition and the interweaving of the dotted and the linear texture fields, allows a wide variety of effects and visual expressions.
- Address Via Kennedy 77, 09086 Samugheo | Italy
- Tel +39 078 364287
Mariantonia Urru is an entrepreneur who gives new life to the tradition of her land, by contaminating it with the sensitivity of the present and with the collaboration with customers. Mariantonia Urru gives to weaving of her carpets multiple meanings: a link between past and present, a link between innovation and tradition, as for tradition of making. Mariantonia Urru looks to the future, maintaining a quality of product and crafts that originally belongs to the past and which are a great...