Guado Urbino - stoles and scarves in guado

The celestial nature of a colour

Guado Urbino is history, nature and craftsmanship

For six thousand years man has used plants to dye. Only for a little over a century, since the discovery of artificial color, has this magical practice been lost.

Guado Urbino tells a forgotten story through a new local, handcrafted production of stoles and scarves dyed by hand with the pigment "cilestre" guado. The charm of nature and the antique are hidden in the folds of the accessories made in the Urbino workshop.

The celestial extract from the leaf

The color used for vat dyeing is a natural pigment extracted from the leaf of the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria). A rare natural color with a long history that recalls noble, pagan and sacred symbologies.

Discover the uniqueness of the collections

Stoles, scarves and handkerchiefs, silk and cotton accessories hand-dyed only with woad

Light blue muslins

Handkerchiefs and scarves in three sizes of fresh woad-dyed cotton muslin

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Stoles and scarves

Woad-dyed collection of precious stoles and scarves that vibrate with ancient "cilestre"

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The workshop in the basement of a Renaissance palace

Located in the monumental area of the city, in the basement of Palazzo Ruggeri, the workshop is a large space that sees the creation and display of Guado Urbino handicrafts, designed and made by Alessandra.

Workshop

The story of a colour

There is something magical about rediscovering an ancient pigment that comes straight from the past.

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Urbino cilestre

The traces of ancient azure in the duchy of Urbino in a small illustrated book

the book

They talk about Guado Urbino

Countries, landscapes - Channel 5

Urbino, the ideal Renaissance city colored in woad blue. Davide Rampello tells about Alessandra and her quado dyeing workshop.

GEO - Rai 3

Discovering a splendid city, Urbino, one of the most important centers of the Italian Renaissance. The Artisans of Raphael, by Luigi Ceccarelli

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Linea Verde Life - Rai 1

A "woad pill" from - Linea Verde Life (Rai1) episode filmed in Urbino, broadcast Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020

GEO - Rai 3

Urbino and its connection to pigment. Guado Urbino could not be missed in the June 2020 installment.

CNA Ideas in Fashion - FASHION TV

Guado Urbino parades for CNA Idee in moda in Piazza Rinascimento in Urbino, Sept. 2018

Week End - Marcopolo TV

A nice interview by Erika Mariniello with Alessandra in the Week End program episode of February 21, 2019.

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The ford in the ancient duchy of Urbino: from the recovery of a history to the contemporary.

The ford in the ancient duchy of Urbino: from the recovery of a history to the contemporary.

The conference, held in Urbino on Feb. 12, 2024, inaugurated the project for Pesaro 2024, Italian Capital of Culture, by exploring the link between the ancient tradition of ford, a blue pigment extracted from the plant Isatis tinctoria, and its cultural and economic significance for the ancient duchy of Urbino.

Craftsmanship, a word, an object

Craftsmanship, a word, an object

"...once it was all handicraft here" and before industrial productions everything was really handmade

The scarf passion you didn't know you had

The scarf passion you didn't know you had

Just as with shoes and clothes, there are endless scarves: different possibilities of colors, patterns, designer labels and fabrics... but one scarf will be able to communicate our personality more than all the others. ...