Craft Card
International Craft Charter
The International Charter of Artistic Crafts is an important document supporting strategies for the development, enhancement, protection and promotion of Artistic and Traditional Crafts at a national and international level, which brings together the largest entities dealing with crafts in Italy and abroad.
The first objective that the Charter sets itself is the recognition – at an international level – of the values that the artistic craftsmanship sector embodies, for our economy, culture and tradition.
To date, this important document, the result of the intuition of CNA, Confartigianato Imprese and Artex, has 39 promoters and 17 supporters in nine different countries and IVAT – Institut de l’Artisanat Valdôtain de Tradition, which has been among its first subscribers and signatories since 2010.
“The Charter was created to network, throughout Italy, the entities that deal with craftsmanship and are aware of its problems. Craftsmanship is a unique heritage resulting from a centuries-old cultural, artistic and productive tradition that reflects the specificities of the territories to which it belongs and the identity of the individual communities that make up our country. It has always been the flagship of Italian production and is present in all European and international contexts.
IVAT has been working for over sixty years to protect the traditional craftsmanship of our region. Knowing the history, it believes in the need to be a protagonist in the future of this delicate sector, which today more than ever, even in our Region, requires special attention and deep reflection on its meaning and on the future strategies needed to maintain, protect and make it grow.”
International Charter of Artistic Crafts
Attachment International Charter of Artistic Crafts
List of promoters and supporters of the International Charter of Artistic Crafts
The consequences that the prolonged closure of activities due to Covid-19 is having on the artistic and traditional crafts sector has prompted the representatives of the National Table of Artistic Crafts, formed by the supporters of the International Crafts Charter of which IVAT has been a signatory since 2010, to spread an important appeal that the body is helping to spread. To overcome this moment, the signatories of the International Charter of Craft have in fact decided to unite, to network to support the importance of the craft sector as a tool for the development of the country and to make their voices heard.
The artisanal and Made in Italy industries are the great wealth of our country, and of our small region, and this table is working to ensure that this is recognized and that craftsmanship gets the right support at a national administrative, political and institutional level. At this precise historical moment, the craft sector needs targeted strategies and policies that take into account the complexity and potential of the world of artistic and traditional crafts.
From moments of discussion and reflection among the members of the Carta dell’Artigianato, a manifesto was born, the result of sharing medium and long-term strategies, which aim to bring craftsmanship back to the center of the national economic and cultural scene, but also to identify possible short-term actions that can provide concrete answers to companies and laboratories in difficulty.