Our mosaic workshop is located in the centre of Udine, in the north-east Italy, and from 2023 also in Spilimbergo, a very important place for the history of mosaics.

This is an important territory for mosaics: the prestigious Scuola Mosaicisti (Friuli Venezia Giulia’s Mosaic School) – the school where we trained – is based in Spilimbergo.
The name of our activity, which was established in 2006 as Arab Mosaico, has become Carraro Chabarik at the beginning of 2016. But our workshop is based in the same place since many years: via B. Odorico da Pordenone 4/B, Udine. Here we create works of artistic research and commissioned works, engaging in dialogue with our customers. We realize designer collections and a line of jewels, furnishing items and architectural projects.

Our mosaics are handcrafted with particular techniques, tools and materials. Therefore, they are born out of ancient tradition but have a contemporary development.

With the chisel and the marteline (mosaic hammer), which have been the mosaicist’s tools since ancient times, we cut the tesserae, which make up the mosaic, by hand.

photo by Anna Fuga

The composition of the tesserae follows some lines and some space subdivisions called andamenti (courses), or can be left up to creativity and artistic improvisation in some contemporary solutions.

The traditional materials can be natural, such as stones and marbles, or of precious glass produced in Venetian furnaces: smalto, a type of non-transparent glass, and gold (a real gold leaf placed between two glass layers). But in contemporary experimentation there is also room for new and alternative materials.

Everything we make is unique and handcrafted, in all their parts. The value of handicraft and the search for beauty are at the basis both of small objects and of large works.

photo by Giovanni Chiarot/Zeroidee