Originally imported by the Phenics, in Italy the Etruscans were already working the filigree at the end of the eighteenth century.
After the year 1000 the filigree hand-work definitely starts flourishing in our Peninsula.
Following the Crusaders’ return, around the year 1200 the art of filigree landed in Genoa and the inhabitants of the so-called “The Superb” soon became very famous
for this handicrafts jewels.
Trade paths, migrant flux, invasions, fashion and customs trends, in a word the history, had a great influence upon the spreading and evolution of the filigree art.
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