Mara's passion for ceramics was born in 1992: as a self-taught ceramist she opened her own business in 2001 in the Bolsena home-laboratory. She combines her skills with those of her daughter Mila, a leather worker, who opened her own shop close to her mom’s. Peculiarities of her ceramic workshop are “bucchero”, Etruscan terracotta with a characteristic black color, and products enameled in a colour bath, while the leather laboratory is very well known for the fine embossing, a very rare medieval technique.
Mara and Mila are splendid and smiling tutelary deities of the enchanted little square where you can breathe the ancient Etruscan “genius loci” of Bolsena. A tiny bit of paradise, dominated by the green vegetation and the colorful objects that come out of the small but welcoming artisanal workshops.