Coltelli Giagu

Coltelli Giagu is a family knife workshop on Via Vittorio Emanuele in Pattada, Sardinia. Salvatore Giagu and Maria Rosaria Deroma founded it in 1985. The couple were the first in the town to devote a workshop to the knife alone, where blacksmiths had made it alongside other tools. The second generation now works at the same bench, with Adriano and Letizia Giagu as knife-makers and Aurelia Giagu as the artisan behind Giagu Design. Every knife is made to commission rather than from stock, and each one carries the GIAGU mark and the mouflon stamp on the blade. Blades range from AISI 420C stainless steel for daily use to forged carbon steel and stainless Damascus for collector pieces. Ram horn remains the historic handle choice, and the family also works mouflon horn and fossil ivory. Mother-of-pearl and Sardinian olive or juniper wood are used for fixed blades. The ring is chosen by the client in brass or silver, with gold and Sardinian filigree also offered. Seven original models were patented in 1991 and registered in Rome, and they remain in the collection today. The building at number 52A has carried the Giagu Deroma name since 1901. It also houses the Museo Culter, a knife museum the couple founded in 2011. Each piece leaves the workshop with a ten year warranty and free sharpening for life.