La Fàrie Geretti is a blacksmith’s workshop and fits into the tradition of family-run artisan laboratories where the secrets of the craft were passed down from father to son. It was precisely from his father Pietro that Antonio Geretti (Cividale del Friuli 1904-1982) inherited the business and initially learned the art of working metal with creativity and attention to technical tradition, later refining his skills by attending the School of Arts and Crafts of the Workers’ Mutual Aid and Education Society of Cividale del Friuli.
La Fàrie Geretti preserves preparatory drawings, hammers, punches, gravers, fire tongs, anvils, plaster casts up to samples of the works created, an expression of the forge and the soul of its owner, who dedicated his entire life, with skill and inventive passion, to this craft.
In the forge of Cividale del Friuli, the “heart” of the workshop is represented by the forge on which pieces were heated to be “batûs fûr” that is, worked hot. On the anvil, the red-hot iron was rhythmically hammered until reaching the desired shape and then tempered through sudden cooling in water.
Other tools are arranged on the benches: punches and gravers, threading instruments, chasing and ball-peen hammers for shaping, wooden mallets to avoid marks on the hot iron during repoussé, tools for soldering, tongs for iron as well as for extracting nails and cutting iron wires. The environment remains untouched, as if the blacksmith Antonio might return to his work at any moment.
Information about Farie Geretti
Stretta della Giudaica, 8
33043 Cividale del Friuli (Udine)
0432734116
info@somsicividale.it
https://www.somsicividale.it
Source: MIBACT
