Crafted Origins
Celebrating Europe’s Craft Geographical Indications
6–8 November 2026
Presented as part of OFICI Traditional Craft Fair, Cardona Castle, Cardona, Spain & Online
Opening: Friday, 6 November at 11.00
About the Exhibition | Exhibition | Jury Perspective | Visit Crafted Origins | Colophon
photo: Tissage-Moutet
Since 1 December 2025, craft and industrial products have been covered by a single EU-wide system of Geographical Indications. The framework protects product names where particular qualities, reputation or characteristics are linked to their geographical origin. Crafted Origins brings together a European landscape of craft Geographical Indications that is still taking shape. Some are already registered at European level. Others have been notified, are under examination, or are moving from national protection into the new EU framework. What links them is not a single material or style, but the way a craft becomes rooted in a place through knowledge, reputation and long practice.
That relationship looks different from one object to the next. It might be a weaving tradition that produces a surprisingly contemporary textile, a regional gemstone worked into both historical and new jewellery, or majolica made through the combined skills of potter and painter. Elsewhere, it is the technique that speaks most clearly: gilding on glass, bobbin lace, carved and painted wood, worked stone, or a particular kind of metal engraving repeated across different pieces.
The exhibition shows why Geographical Indications can matter so much for craft. Origin does not sit in the raw material alone. It can also be carried in the way something is cut, woven, painted, carved, engraved or assembled, and by the people who still know how to do it. Crafted Origins brings this relationship between materials, places, hand and knowledge into view as something living. The selected works demonstrate a shared inheritance that can be protected without being frozen, and continued without remaining unchanged.
Crafted Origins was developed through an open call to ECA members and the Craft & Industrial Geographical Indications Expert Working Group. An independent jury reviewed the nominations and selected the exhibitors, considering the relationship between place, technique, material, knowledge and the individual works presented.
The Exhibition
The exhibition brings together craft Geographical Indications from across Europe, spanning different materials, techniques, regions and stages within the new European framework.
Explore the ECA guide to Craft & Industrial Geographical Indications>>
Linge Basque
France
Tissage Moutet
Nappe Tressage
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Tissage Moutet presents Nappe Tressage, a 170 × 170 cm tablecloth woven in Orthez. Created for the company’s 150th anniversary, the design begins with the fundamental gesture of weaving: interlacing. Research into cane seating, basketry and rope work was translated onto the loom, producing a contemporary pattern within the long tradition of Linge Basque.
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photo: Tissage-Moutet
Porcelaine de Limoges
France
Bernardaud
Vase Jardin Indien
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Bernardaud presents Vase Jardin Indien, a 34.7 cm Limoges porcelain vase whose flowers and foliage are based on nineteenth-century illustrations of a Bombay garden that no longer exists. The decoration combines watercolour-like colour with a porcelain tradition maintained by the Limoges manufacturer since 1863.
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photo: Bernardaud
Grenat de Perpignan
France
Bijouterie Gil et Jean
Grenat de Perpignan jewellery
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Bijouterie Gil et Jean brings a representative set of Grenat de Perpignan jewellery to Crafted Origins. Natural garnets are cut in the characteristic Perpignan form and set in handmade 18-carat gold bezels, with a reflective paillon placed beneath each stone. The jewellery shows how a regional identity can reside in a precise sequence of workshop techniques as much as in the material itself.
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photo: Perpignan
Cristal de La Granja
Spain
Royal Glass Factory of La Granja
Two-handled amphora
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The Royal Glass Factory of La Granja presents a gilded two-handled amphora made through blown glass, wheel carving and hand gilding. The 33 cm vessel depends on the coordinated work of kiln, carving and decoration teams, preserving techniques associated with the Royal Site of San Ildefonso since the eighteenth century.
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©Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja; photo: J.M. Navarro
Kyjatické hračky
Slovakia
Ladislav Hedvigi
Wooden horse toy on wheels
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Master craftsman Ladislav Hedvigi presents a Kyjatice wooden horse on wheels from central Slovakia. Made from beech, it is hewn, planed and assembled with wooden joints and dowels, without metal fasteners or adhesives. The stained surface is finished with chip carving, compass ornament and line engraving inherited from the region’s decorated furniture tradition.
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photo: ÚĽUV Bratislava
Modranská majolika
Slovakia
Slovenská ľudová majolika: Oliver Döme, Juraj Hanulík, Mária Kaššáková
Majolica plate and Vase Kruhy (Circles)
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Slovenská ľudová majolika (Slovak Folk Majolica) brings two Modra ceramics to Crafted Origins: a majolica plate and Vase Kruhy (Circles). The plate was formed by master potter Oliver Döme and hand-painted by master painter Juraj Hanulík. Its decoration draws on a historic design preserved in the cooperative’s archive, with references to Modra’s Upper Gate, coat of arms, pottery tradition and viticulture. Vase Kruhy (Circles) was formed on the pottery wheel by Oliver Döme and painted by Mária Kaššáková, following a design by Emma Kočnerová. The work takes a more contemporary approach to the same specialist division between potter and painter that has long shaped Modra majolica.
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photo: Majolica Plate, Borisova Katarina, ÚĽUV Bratislava
Dalahäst
Sweden
Grannas A Olsson Hemslöjd & Nils Olsson Dalahästar
Eleven Dala horses
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From 37 centimetres to just 1 centimetre, eleven Dala horses from Grannas A Olsson Hemslöjd and Nils Olsson Dalahästar form one of the most playful groups in Crafted Origins. Each pine horse is sawn, carved, colour-dipped and decorated by hand. Eight named painters are represented, including Birgit Johansson, who began at Grannas at fourteen and is still working at 78.
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photo: Grannas A. Olsson Hemslöjd
Ceramica Vietri
Italy
Francesco Raimondi, Fabio Mosca & Tiziano Massimino
Centenary trio of Vietri donkeys
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In 1926, German artist Richard Dölker created the stylised donkey that became an emblem of Vietri ceramics. A century later, Crafted Origins marks the anniversary with three hand-modelled ceramic interpretations by Francesco Raimondi, Fabio Mosca and Tiziano Massimino. The trio brings a familiar local symbol into the present through three different sets of hands.
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Piece by Francesco Raimondini, photo: CNA
Pierre Bleue de Belgique
Belgium
Sylvain Patte
The Hand in the Stone
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Belgian sculptor Sylvain Patte presents The Hand in the Stone, a 36 cm sculpture in Pierre Bleue de Belgique (Belgian Blue Limestone). Formed more than 340 million years ago and extracted at the Troydo Quarry, Ouffet, Belgium, by Pierre Bleue de Wallonie S.A., the dense blue-grey material carries visible geological memory. Patte fragments and reconstructs it into a compact form that recalls architecture and masonry.
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photo: Joëlle Verlaine, Studio Nelissen, courtesy of Pierre Bleue de Wallonie S. A.
Idrijska čipka
Slovenia
Idrija Lace School
Six Idrija lace works
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The Idrija Lace School, founded in 1876, presents six works ranging from table lace and a doily to a tie and a purse. Each is made through hand bobbin lace in cotton thread. The group (Maja Svetlik, Irma Pervanja, Ines Čuk, Ljudmila Černalogar, Irena Laharnar, Mira Guzelj, lacemakers within EU project Be Unique in Europe, Ana Rejc, Usnjeni izdelki Pavli) are the pattern designers, lacemakers, seamstresses and leatherworker behind the finished objects, showing the different hands through which the tradition continues.
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photo: Metka Fortuna
Camisola Poveira
Portugal
Aurora Luxury Handmade
Camisola Poveira
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Anabela Ramos de Oliveira of Aurora Luxury Handmade presents a Camisola Poveira in 100% natural wool. The white sweater is knitted piece by piece and finished with black-and-red embroidery drawn from the visual language of Póvoa de Varzim’s fishing community: boats, maritime fauna, initials and geometric motifs including tremidinhos and castelinhos.
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photo: Aurora Luxury Handmade
Bordado de Guimarães
Portugal
Isabel Oliveira
Cobertura de pão de ló
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Isabel Oliveira presents a 49 cm Cobertura de pão de ló, embroidered in red cotton thread on linen. The cloth combines herringbone hem, canutilho, rolled eyelet, feather stitch, chain stitch, French knots and satin stitch. The restrained palette leaves the raised stitch structure and geometricised plant motifs to carry the identity of Bordado de Guimarães.
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photo: Isabel Oliveira & CEARTE
Oreficeria Fiorentina
Italy
Vannini Gioielli
Collana in Stile Orafo Fiorentino
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Vannini Gioielli presents a semi-rigid choker in white and yellow gold, made in Florence through chasing, engraving, openwork and modular construction. Each section is pierced by hand with floral motifs and finished with burin engraving. The repetition of the same technical language across the necklace makes the handwork legible from one module to the next.
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photo: Vannini Gioielli
Lefkara lace
Cyprus
Natalie Kyrmizi
Geometry of Void I & II
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Cypriot textile artist and costume designer Natalie Kyrmizi presents Geometry of Void I and II, two collars in beige linen and cotton thread made with Lefkara lace techniques. Cutwork and withdrawn-thread structures create small geometric openings, making light and empty space part of the textile itself.
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photo: Lefkara Village; author Natalie Kyrmizi
Donegal Tweed
Ireland
Molloy & Sons
Donegal Tweed reference sample
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Sixth-generation weavers Molloy & Sons present a 150 × 150 cm Donegal Tweed reference sample rather than a finished garment. Woven in wool in a plain weave, it is designed to show the colour combinations possible with characteristic nepp or fleck yarn. The material itself becomes the exhibit.
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photo: Kieran Molloy
The Jury
The works were selected by a jury bringing together perspectives from craft, curation, design, intellectual property and Geographical Indications. Here are their perspectives on the selection:
Marion Poortvliet
Founder, Crafts Council Netherlands & ECA Board Member
“What interested me most was seeing how techniques that have existed for generations can still produce objects that still hold value in several ways. Craft survives because knowledge continues to be practised and passed on, but that does not mean the result has to remain unchanged.”
Tachy Mora
Design Journalist & Independent Curator
“What I find compelling is the relationship between craft and territory, and the different ways it can appear in an object. A traditional technique does not necessarily produce something that looks traditional. Putting historical and contemporary expressions alongside one another allows us to see how a craft can remain rooted in a place while continuing to change.”
Paulo Ribeiro
Architect, Curator & Director of Ofici and Contemporania Fairs
“For me, you should be able to recognise something particular in the way an object has been made. In this selection, that might be gilding on glass, hand-painting, carving or a form of metal engraving that appears again and again across different pieces. That technical identity is what gives the objects their strength, both individually and when they are brought together in the exhibition.”
Jean Rodesch
Intellectual Property & Geographical Indications Expert
“A Geographical Indication asks us to look closely at what connects a product to a particular place. Sometimes that connection is found in the material, but very often it lies in a technique, a reputation or knowledge maintained by a community. Bringing well-known GIs together with much less familiar ones shows just how varied those relationships can be.”
Laura Miguel
Secretary General, European Crafts Alliance
“The selection gives us a glimpse of just how broad the European landscape of craft Geographical Indications can be. It brings together a wide range of materials, techniques, regions and histories, including crafts that are widely recognised and others that are still little known outside their place of origin. Bringing them together is also an invitation to other craft communities to recognise what is distinctive in their own traditions and consider how it might be protected.”
Visit Crafted Origins
6–8 November 2026
Part of OFICI, Traditional Craft Fair
Cardona Castle, Parador Nacional de Turismo, 506, 08261 Cardona, Barcelona, Spain
Opening hours:
Friday 6 November: 11.00–19.00
Saturday 7 November: 11.00–19.00
Sunday 8 November: 11.00–18.00
Admission is FREE.
Crafted Origins will be presented as part of OFICI, Traditional Craft Fair, which brings traditional trades into conversation with contemporary markets and audiences. The fair brings together craftspeople, professionals, creators and the wider public, alongside a programme spanning craft, gastronomy, music and other activities. OFICI is organised by the Consortium of Commerce, Crafts and Fashion of Catalonia (CCAM) together with Le Département, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.
Crafted Origins will also be available as an online exhibition on the ECA website.
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The Crafted Origins exhibition is part of the CraftsNet project, co-funded by the European Union.
The ECA would like to thank our member The Consortium of Commerce, Crafts and Fashion, and Ofici fair.
