Extraordinary Dryings

Venetian bricole in a canal in the historic city center

From the Lagoon to Rebirth: Drying Venice’s Bricole

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From the Lagoon to Rebirth: Drying Venice’s Bricole When the lagoon calls, the wood responds. We had the honour of welcoming a truly unique material into our facility: Venice’s bricole, the iconic wooden poles that guide boats through the Venetian lagoon and, once worn by time and tide, are replaced and reclaimed. These poles, steeped…

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Fossil wood logs in the lowlands, before drying

Millennia in wood: drying fossilised timber

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Millennia in wood: drying fossilised timber Some materials tell a story. Fossilised timber tells prehistory. We recently had the privilege of processing a batch of fossilised wood, unearthed during geological excavations and dating back thousands of years B.C. These are ancient trees, buried and preserved under layers of soil for millennia, which have undergone a…

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