Laboratorio Giuditta Brozzetti

Laboratorio Giuditta Brozzetti is a weaving workshop located in Perugia, Italy where Master Weaver Marta Cucchia continues her great-grandmother Giuditta Brozzetti’s vocational mission of preserving Umbria’s ancient fabric-weaving tradition. 

As evidenced in the masterpieces of artists such as Giotto, Ghirlandaio, Pinturicchio and Leonardo da Vinci, weaving has been an important part of Umbrian culture for centuries.  Historically, each household would have a small loom that women would use to produce essential fabrics for their home and family. Over time, countless techniques and patterns were devised and passed down orally from one generation to the next. As the centuries progressed, however, the practice of this wonderful craft diminished nearly to the point of extinction by the early 20th century. It was at that time that Marta’s great-grandmother, determined to preserve what was left of this craft and rediscover its ancient trade secrets, opened a laboratorio-scuola (workshop-school) dedicated to the production of high quality artistic textiles for the home. 

Today, one hundred years later, the Laboratorio Giuditta Brozzetti is located in a deconsecrated Franciscan church dating from the year 1212. Against this incredibly suggestive and inspiring backdrop, Marta weaves historical artistic fabrics on antique jacquard looms dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries.  Every piece she makes is unique, entirely woven, assembled and finished by hand, and adheres to the ancient Umbrian traditions that her Great-grandmother Giuditta worked so hard to conserve. 

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