Tuscan knives of Scarperia

The knives of Scarperia – Not far from Florence, along the river Sieve, is the territory known as Mugello. In the wonderful places dear to the Medici family, among ancient churches, monasteries and water mills, located in Scarperia, rises the small Italian capital of cutlery of centuries-old tradition.
Ever since its founding in 1306, the people of Scarperia manifested a strong vocation for the craft of cutting tools, as originally these craftsmen were gunsmiths before specializing in knives making. At the end of 1800 the production of knives in Scarperia lived a moment of great expansion, although penalized by the Giolitti Law of 1908 which limited the blades length of the knives.

Today the craft shops in Scarperia are specialized in reinterpretation of local and regional models and count a wide range of traditional and exclusive knives, including the elegant zuava, the palmerino, the tre pianelle, the mozzetta and many hunting knives as the Mugellano.
Practical and hard, designed to serve hunters or those who work in the woods and in the countryside, the Mugellano is a typical knife production of Scarperia. Characterized by a blade in broad outline, it is equipped with a spring and internal structure railway. It has in fact, unlike the other Italian knives, two plates in which the spring sits in between and serve to house the blade when it is in folded position. In the earliest examples the blade is worked in tiles, a feature lost in the most recent projects. The handle is preferably of bovine horn even if you can find mugellani of considerable value with the grips of deer antler.
In 1999 the Museum of Knives was open in the fifteenth century ancient mansion Palazzo de ‘Vicars in the heart of the country.

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