Word: squerariolo
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...fault: he arrived in Venice in July, just before the locals take off on vacation for a month. So he did research on gondolas for a couple of months, and in September met up with one of the few remaining master gondola makers, Daniele Bonaldo, 69, a squerariolo who had been in the business since he left primary school. "I used to sweep the floors, pick up the bent nails and straighten them out so we could still use them," says Bonaldo. "We didn't throw them away like we do today...
...Price started his own business as a general woodworker. He also put up a website about gondolas, www.squero.com, and occasionally people would write and ask him to make one for them. He got a serious proposal from a man in Texas, and was on his way to becoming a squerariolo. It's not hard to sell a gondola, Price says, it's hard to find someone to make one for you. He returned to Bonaldo, and cut a deal with him for the use of his workshop and its strongback, the nearly 12-m frame around which a gondola...
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