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When Venice Lives: It Looks Like This – Carteria Ai Frari - 15 september 2021

interview with Elisabetta Casaburi, about Carterìa, crafts and Venice.

Elisabetta Casaburi, owner of Carterìa Ai Frari, is an artisan who upholds Venice’s longstanding tradition of making paper. After graduating from the Venice School of Art and attending literature courses at Ca’ Foscari, she worked as an advertising and editorial graphic artist. In 2008 Elisabetta decided to put in her shop everything she has loved and learned to do in the course of her life. She is a paper craftsman, and each of her productions, from the travel notebook to the photo album, “has the intention of collecting the past as a bridge to the future,” she says.
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Soul Spritz Duo in Carterìa



Il nostro micro-mondo è Venezia e vogliamo sottolineare la voglia di fare e rimettersi in moto di tutta una serie di negozianti, ristoratori, artigiani. Ringraziarli per il loro esserci vicini (per molti motivi).
Alcune di queste realtà hanno appena rialzato la serranda dopo mesi, altre hanno sempre supportato la città col loro lavoro.
Altri, infine, si trovano un po' nel mezzo.
Tutti, come potevano, durante un periodo difficile partito dal novembre 19, ci sono stati.
Continuiamo ringraziare chi, con la sua iniziativa, ha continuato e continua a mettere benzina nel motore della città.
Oggi vi parliamo della Carterìa ai Frari.
Questa è una splendida bottega di famiglia. A capo di tutto c'è Elisabetta che crea, seleziona, ascolta, consiglia. Insieme a lei Stefano, il marito, che è una presenza forse meno "artigiana" ma molto artistica (con lui farete una scorpacciata di racconti su Venezia). Infine Giulia, la nuova generazione, capace di coniugare musica (la sua passione) con questo mondo di creazioni.
Qui trovate quaderni e blocchi rilegati da loro, stilografiche, carte, sculture, portachiavi e oggetti per regali originali. Poi, se avete un'idea, vi ascoltano con attenzione e vedono come aiutarvi a realizzarla.
Molta cura e sorrisi che regalano serenità.
Fateci un salto!
Trovarli è facile: come dice il nome sono a un passo dai Frari: San Polo 2954
Grazie ragazzi e... #duriibanchi

InTime VII/I- 2021-september-october

Carterìa ai Frari is among the shopping suggestions of InTime VII / I- 2021-September-October , the magazine of the Venice Airport.

Founded in 2008, Carterìa ai Frari is a family shop run by Elisabetta, Stefano and Giulia. Here you can find notebooks, albums and diaries made using high-quality materials and following traditional procedures, harking back to the Venetian binding industry of the fifteenth century. Each product is unique and made entirely by hand.
Fondata nel 2008, la Carterìa ai Frari è una bottega di famiglia, gestita da Elisabetta, Stefano e Giulia. Qui potrete trovare quaderni, album e diari realizzati con materiali di alta qualità e seguendo procedimenti tradizionali, risalenti alla legatura veneziana del XV secolo. Ogni prodotto è unico e fatto interamente a mano.

Live-in-Venice Week 2021 by SofaTour

Carteria Ai Frari: the world of paper in Venice 12 june 2021

Carteria Ai Frari was founded in 2008. This beautiful family-run shop a few step from the Basilica dei Frari, uses high quality materials and traditional techniques, dating back to the Venetian binding of the 15th century, to produce its notebooks, albums and diaries. We will meet Elisabetta, Stefano and Giulia who, with passion and competence and using only entirely handmade processes, create unique paper objects, true to the ancient Venetian tradition of book binding. Their products are a guarantee of quality and authenticity making each product unique.

Alleghiamo qui il video prodotto:

On Air

Interview RAI News 24 On Air with Elisabetta Casaburi about Carterìa ai Frari - 10 March 2021.

In the On-Air program broadcast on Radio News 24, a format that addresses cultural and social issues at 360 degrees, with particular attention to the realities that enhance the territory with competence, passion and innovation, an interview with Elisabetta was aired. We attach here the links with the versions produced:

The Christmas tree of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music

12 December 2020.

Kusudama (literally "medicinal sphere" - which in this period can be auspicious - from kusuri, Medicine, and tama, Sphere) composed by tying together several identical pyramidal modules (12 flowers of 5 modular petals each obtained starting from square sheets) to form a spherical shape: the one created by Carterìa ai Frari, together with the paper "spheres", for the Christmas tree of the Conservatory, in this period can only be auspicious.
The Christmas tree of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music was created thanks to: Munaretto Plants by Michele Munaretto has provided a fir tree of almost 6 meters, Alfier Restauri the structures to decorate it, SpazioLuce Impianti the lights. The decorations were created with different materials and shapes by: Adele Stefanelli ceramiche, Carterìa ai Frari by Elisabetta Casaburi, Giberto by Giberto Arrivabene, Giuliana Longo modisteria, Il forcolaio matto by Piero Dri, Laguna B by Marcantonio Brandolini, Le forcole by Saverio Pastor, Liuteria Cadamuro by Simone Cadamuro, Luisa Zenoni Politeo, Vetreria Nason e Moretti, Pasticceria Rosa Salva, Sartoria Franco Puppato, Sior Todaro by Marco e Claudia Righi, Tessitura Bevilacqua, Venice Factory by sorelle Gerotto, Vianello pavimenti alla veneziana, Yali Venice by Marie Rose Kahane e Felicity Menadue. Finally, the artistic coordination is by the interior designer Matteo Corvino.


C.Ar.T.E. - Carta Arte Tipografa Editoria - Museo diffuso della carta e della stampa a Venezia tra passato e presente

14 july 2020.

With the project "C.Ar.T.E. - Carta Arte Tipografa Editoria - Widespread Museum of Paper and Printing in Venice between past and present", the Ca' Foscari Foundation won the regional tender " The work tells itself. Company shops and ateliers. Itineraries for the discovery of corporate assets
With his partners: Regione del Veneto | Ca' Macana | Carterìa ai Frari | Fallani Venezia | Fondazione Querini Stampalia Venezia | Itaca Art Studio di Monica Martin | Lineadacqua | Picoplano | Plum Plum Creations | Scriba di Giuseppe Ferlito | Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia | Veneziastampa | Associazione Culturale Bottega del Tintoretto | promotes a long process to create a new concept of a widespread museum:
- helping them to enhance their corporate assets - building together experiential proposals - involving professionals to raise awareness of the cultural heritage linked to the world of paper and print.

Aruco Italia

Carterìa ai Frari is among the shopping tips of Chikyu-no-Arukikata (Globe-Trotter Travel GuideBook), Target readers and their travel styles. For Travel-loving women from Age25 to 40.

Hiroshi Sakate, one of the coordinators of a tourist guide on Italy published in Japan released in July 2016 and replicated in the following years with a circulation of 100,000 copies, contacted us to propose to appear for free among the reports of some hotels, restaurants and shops located in Rome, Milan, Florence and Venice.

100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go

Susan Van Allen.

With passion, humor, and helpful tips, 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go inspires women to discover places that will appeal to their spirits, senses, and quests for adventure. Susan Van Allen has explored Italy up and down the boot for over 30 years and shares the intriguing details and secrets of her favorite places, along with those she's gathered from her girlfriends, fellow writers, and savvy actresses.

“Elisabetta Casaburi has been handcrafting decorative paper products for twenty years and just opened this shop in the fall of 2008. She brings a fresh hit to the craft, with playful designs. I like her Moon Journals that are covered in neon pink, yellow, or turquoise paper that’s roughly textured, resembling craters.”