The Italian city of Florence is a center of arts and culture.
It's also home to paper making traditions that date back centuries.
From sheets and cards to book pages and binders, handmade Florentine paper can still be found in a few places here.
This paper is now called Florentine paper even if the correct origin is marbled paper.
It's a very old technique of decorating paper.
But it was used a lot in Florence, in book binding process mostly, so always related to books and printing.
Maria co-owns Giulio Giannini e Figlio, a family business now in its sixth generation.
It's Florence's oldest marbled papermaker and one of the few places where it's still handmade.
Maria also holds workshops on how to make marbled paper.
I'm going to make, to prepare the marbled paper.
