Arts and crafts workshops
 Italian language courses combined with arts and crafts workshops are offered in the following subjects:
- furniture restoration
- painting restoration
- goldsmith's and jeweller's art
- leather goods manufacture
They are organized together with the Association of Artisans of Florence and are available for beginners as well as for those students who are already familiar with artisan skills.
In the arts and crafts workshops students learn these ancient skills in a typical Florentine artisan shop (bottega). Courses comprise of Italian lessons focused on technical terminology as well as craftsmanship training. After a first theoretic approach, students start using tools and work objects manually on the precious advices of the artisan. Courses can have a duration of 1, 3 or 9 months.
Each package of a complete course includes:
- conversation group lessons in the morning
- one-to-one lessons on the subject's history (16 hour lessons)
- one-to-one lessons on the subject's technical terminology (24 hour lessons)
- theory and training in the workshop
- insurance
 Schedule and dates of workshop lessons are arranged between learners and staff. A maximum of 3 students can participate in each workshop lesson. At the end of the course students receive their certificate of attendance from the Association.
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