Ceramics-working is widespread all over Umbria and offers artistic and daily-use products that are different in the various places, because of shape, colour and baking formality. The chiefest production centres are Umbertide, Gualdo Tadino, Gubbio (well-known for its shining tecnique, that gives earthenware metallic tints), Orvieto, where, since the Etruscan period, "buccheri" have been produced, and Ficulle. Deruta is worth of particular attention, because its ceramics-working has been documented since 1290, and, still today, more than 2 hundred artistic workshops are here, offering a wide choice of shapes and typologies.
Fabrics
Umbrian textiles production goes back to the XIII c., especially in Perugia, which is renowned for the manifacture of the Perugian Tablecloth, made of a particular white linen and blue band fabric, called partridge's eye. Row materials, decoration tecniques and traditional machineries are still used to make tough and valuable fabrics, decorated with usual, simple and very ornamental motives. Assisi and Maggiore Isle in Trasimeno Lake are famous for their lace-working. Infact, Assisi-stitch has been worked since the III c. and the isle is well-known for its Irish laceworks.
Wood
Many craftsmen in the region work to reproduce old and traditional furniture. This artistic handicraft concentrates especially in the northern part of Umbria, so much that, in Cittą di Castello, there's a yearly traditional furniture exhibition. Craftsmen's workshops are dedicated to carving and inlay especially in Perugia, Todi, Assisi and Gubbio. Everywhere, skilful restorers' shops are visible.
Wrought iron
This has been a widespread craftmade working in Umbria since the Middle Age, especially in the province of Terni, thanks to the production of artistic and everyday use objects. In the XVI c., Norcia, for instance, was very famous for its surgical instruments' realization. Assisi, Spoleto and Cittą della Pieve are important centers too today, because of metal-working. Gubbio is worth of particular mentioning, because craftsmen here reproduce weapons and armours, that are an exact copy of the original.
