• The celestial nature of a color

Guado Urbino is history, nature and craftsmanship

For six thousand years man has used plants for dyeing. Only a little over a century ago, after the discovery of artificial colour, was this magical practice lost.

Guado Urbino recovers and tells a forgotten story through a new local and artisanal production of stoles and scarves hand-dyed with the "cilestre" pigment guado. The charm of nature and the ancient are hidden in the folds of the accessories made in the Urbino laboratory.

The laboratory in the basement of an ancient building

Located in the monumental area of ​​the city, in the basement of an ancient building, the laboratory is a large space that sees the creation and display of Guado Urbino artisan products, designed and created by Alessandra.

WORKSHOP

The story of a color

Woad is the natural pigment obtained from Isatis tinctoria, historically used in Europe to dye fabrics and yarns. There is something magical in rediscovering an ancient pigment that comes directly from the past...

WOAD

Urbino celestial

The traces of the ancient blue in the Duchy of Urbino in a small illustrated book

BOOK