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(ANSA) - JERZU, 06 APR - For more than a month, scissors, needles, thread and machinery have stopped. The fabric is no longer cut, lapels, hems and buttonholes are not created and, above all, the measures are no longer taken by those customers who, for 60 years, have entered the artisan tailoring "Mario Demurtas" in Jerzu (Nuoro), to be sewn , made-to-measure, clothes, jackets and calzone by shepherd, rigorously in velvet, and have caps created. Everything stopped and eight employees at home. The closure imposed for the Decree has become an opportunity to help others for the owner, Valentina, who since January 1st, with the generational change, has taken over the company from her father Mario: to create masks to protect the nose and mouth in a period in which hospitals don't have them either. The protection devices produced in Ogliastra are washable, made with cotton, and reusable with a front pocket to insert and replace a filtering layer to be used and to be produced.The production has reached 500 per day to be distributed, free of charge, to the employees of the Municipality of Jerzu and in rest homes, then in supermarkets, newsagents, and between acquaintances or directly to the Company for the protection of Health. "At a time like this, each of us must make our own contribution - says Valentina Demurtas - for this reason we are trying to create such a number of templates in the shortest time possible, unobtainable and increasingly precious objects, to forgive them and to be able to face at least this imminent emergency. They are ready the packs of masks to send to Cagliari, as a gift to the Health Protection Company which with Confartigianato Sardegna has signed an agreement - underlines - our small contribution and thanks to those who every day and on the front to fight for all of us ". (HANDLE).