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To evoke the pastoral tradition is also to recall the know-how inherited since the dawn of time and passed on from generation to generation until today. Based on the mastery of traditional techniques specific to the territory, they constitute an invaluable cultural heritage and a potential resource for local development. U CASGIU VENACHESE Visiting the Venacu area in 1531, Mgr Giustiniani, bishop of Nebbiu, wrote: "The pieve of Venacu is especially renowned for the good and excellent cheeses that are made there". A few centuries later, this is still the case. Moreover, every year at the beginning of May, the Fiera di u casgiu (the cheese fair), puts forward for three days the shepherds and their productions. Venachese cheese, made from sheep's or goat's milk, is a soft cheese with a washed rind. It is rubbed, handled and washed with a wet hand almost every day. Brocciu is also made here, the know-how of which is shared by all the island's shepherds and recognised by a Protected Designation of Origin. E FATOGHJE Made from rushes, è fatoghje are cheese shapes. The plant is harvested in the coastal marshes and then dried for several weeks. It is boiled in water to soften it. Some people still have the traditional winnowing skills to make these accessories. Each fatoghja had a particular appearance depending on the weaving technique used or the region of manufacture. Although supplanted by plastic forms, fatoghje are now used again in cheese making by some shepherds. PANNU CORSU, FUNE È PILONE Among the skills linked to domestic crafts, spinning and weaving occupy an essential place. Goat hair and ewe's wool were the raw material for this activity. At the beginning of the 19th century there were three weavers (telaghji) in Riventosa, three in Poghju and seven in Casanova. They made cloth and used sheep's wool to weave u pannu corsu (woollen cloth). In Poghju, at the end of the 18th century, the Traghjettu water mill was equipped with fulling machines to beat the wool sheets and soften them. The spun goat hair was used to make the famous pilone, a warm and waterproof cloak worn by shepherds. The ropes braided from this material (e fune) were also renowned for their resistance.

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