Leandro Favre, one of the few sabotiers (clog maker) still operating in the Aosta Valley, produces about a thousand sabots a year, about 16 pairs a day, and also manages a farm.
Sabotier by family vocation, he began his activity as a craftsman around the Sixties together with his brother with whom he participates in the Sant’Orso Fair since 1966.
Sabots, although not as widespread as they once were, are still in great demand as a traditional object that becomes a decorative piece of furniture.
These sturdy and easy-to-walk wooden clogs, once present in every family and testimony of the region’s agropastoral economy, are now recognized as symbols of the Aosta Valley.
