Why Edicolafabbri Exists

Edicolafabbri is a small independent magazine-style site for people who like to read, watch and make things. The name borrows from the Italian newsstand, a place where a novel, a film review and a craft pamphlet could sit side by side. The site tries to keep that mix of curiosity alive online.

Three shelves

Everything published here belongs to one of three areas: books, cinema and crafts. They feed one another. A novel can send you to a film adaptation, a film can make you want to try a technique you saw on screen, and a craft project often ends with a good book on the table beside it.

• Books offers reading notes, reading lists, comparisons of editions and translations, and thoughts on what makes a title worth your evening.
• Cinema looks at films old and new, adaptations, directors’ recurring themes and ways to build a home viewing routine.
• Crafts explains paper work, sewing, knitting, simple woodwork and repairs, with attention to materials, tools and realistic time.

Our way of working

The aim is useful, readable writing. Statements about a book, a release date, a film credit or a technique are checked against publishers’ pages, film archives and catalogues, and the maker’s instructions where a material or tool is mentioned. Opinions are labelled as opinions, and where sources disagree the article says so.

Catalogues change, editions go out of print and methods improve, so older pages are reread and revised when something no longer holds.

The readers we have in mind

Readers might be someone choosing a first classic, a film lover hunting for a forgotten title, or a beginner holding yarn for the first time. Nothing here assumes a large library, a cinema membership or a fully equipped workshop.

Spotted an error?

If a title, date, credit or instruction is wrong, write to [email protected]. Corrections are made on the page itself so that readers can see what changed.