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The art of embroidery in San Casciano

In Mercatale Val di Pesa a family workshop creates original and timeless embroidery.

For 35 years now in Mercatale Val di Pesa (San Casciano) Grazia Giachi, along with her daughter, has made precious embroideries with Florentine stitches, lily motifs, shadow and flat stitches. The art of embroidery, which the lady learnt as a young girl when she worked in Florence's shops, has a long tradition. It was the time European nobility and rich American heiresses went to Tuscany to have elegant garments and precious linen made up.
Her craft workshop has been open on the main piazza of Mercatale Val di Pesa for 15 years, and for some time there has been a sales point open at piazza Matteotti 35, in Greve in Chianti, from March to the end of November. She and her daughter work with passion and perfection, and with technique and taste for colour.

There are table cloths, sheets and towels in embroidered linen in their workshop and for some time the two proprietors have started to make children's clothes as well. In particular they carry out works by commission which are planned and created specifically for their clients. Some of these clients are in the habit of commissioning tablecloths which have the same pattern as their dinner services.