In the historic center of Simala, not far from the parish church, is the workshop of su màistu de linna, the carpenter’s workshop that is a memory of the many artisans who worked in the village in the past.
Francesco Cabras’ workshop, which has remained virtually unchanged, shows a glimpse of life in the past and offers visitors a glimpse of the countless tools used in the ancient carpenter’s trade.
These are traces of identity that create suggestions when one enters the workshop with its stone walls and observes saws, hammers, chisels and whatever else the carpenter needed in carrying out his work. They tell of the wisdom of hands that sawed, planed, sanded and polished poplar and beech wood. They are the indelible scent of glue and sawdust and chestnut wood when the gouge creates the carvings on ancient Sardinian chests. It is the beating of the cooper’s hammer as harvest time approaches.
