Month: August 2025

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Traveling in Sardinia – Experiences

Photo collage of various locations in Sardinia.

Join me for an armchair adventure into Sardinia’s majesty and indescribable beauty! The photos, videos, stories I’ll share in this event also hint at places we’ll visit in 2026 tours.

Step away from your daily routine and ease into a short armchair adventure to give yourself a glimpse of Sardinia’s majesty and indescribable beauty! Experience the beauty of Sardinia’s nature, culture, heritage, and arts through photos, short video clips, and stories that carry your mind and heart past the boundaries of what you think life should be like.

Since 2013, I’ve been traveling throughout Sardinia, which I consider the home of my heart. Over the years, many dear friends and many wonderful adventures have come my way, many off the beaten track.

To give you a sense of Sardinia and its magic, I’ll be sharing some of my experiences of Sardinia in this presentation. Some of the places I mention will be included in the 2026 tours I’m leading in May and October.

This event is free. Register here to attend.

Textiles in photos © Isa Frongia, Gabriella Lutzu, Eugenia Pinna 

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Stating the Obvious: Gen AI Creates Misinformation About Sardinia 

Intentionally upside down photo of sailboats in a harbor.

An important reminder for everyone, including those interested in Sardinia and Sardinian handwoven textiles: Don’t believe everything you see online. 

Today on social media I saw yet more AI-generated content with incorrect, misleading information about Sardinia and supposed (not actual) women handweaving artists. I’ll try to not rant too much, and just implore: Don’t believe everything you see online. 

Know and trust your online sources. Ensure they’re real. Ensure your sources have the knowledge and experience they say they do. Ensure their content is valid, truthful, and not scraped from others. If you’re interested in handwoven textiles, make certain you and the seller/maker share the same definition of “handwoven”.

I see an increasing number of sites and social profiles that use gen AI to fabricate content about Sardinia. Their text and photos are too often inaccurate and misleading. In addition, AI-generated content about Sardinian textiles often scrapes from carefully-curated sites built by artists and their supporters without concern for artists, their work, or their rights.* Online reviews and images of Sardinian places and properties can be falsified easily — and too often are. Sadly, I’ve had to console and gently re-educate a number of folks who have made reservations or purchases in Sardinia based on misinformation they found online and didn’t verify.

Brief examples:
•  You scroll online and see photo of women at a loom, supposedly in Samugheo, with a window opening to the sea and text describing the scent of the sea influencing the textiles? Fake. 
•   A real estate site shows you a supposed listing for a house in Samugheo (or elsewhere in the island’s center) with a sunset vista of the ocean. Fake.

Samugheo is not anywhere near the sea. You can’t see or smell the ocean from Samugheo or other places in the center of the island.

As always, the best sources of information are experienced, trustworthy humans you know. 

Sardinian Arts and all that I write, share, and post are human-created and human-focused, based upon my extensive in-person experience and travels in Sardinia, my good fortune in having met many friends on the island, and my continuing exploration of the many gifts Sardinia offers. 

Don’t believe everything you see social media. Check sources. Get to know the people you meet online. Work with human beings you know and trust. People with experience, heart, and soul. 

~ Kelly Manjula Koza

*I don’t scrape from other sites. Several sites posting all AI-generated content scrape from SardinianArts.com, however 🙁

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You Said You Want to Tour Sardinia . . .

Photo collage of Sardinian locations with text stating 2026 Sardinia Tour Schedule Just Released

Life continues its fast pace, and I haven’t posted or written much in the past months because so much has been in motion – including me! 

May and June found me zig-zagging across Sardinia. I posted a few tidbits about my adventures while on the road, yet I prefer to stay present with the people, places, and experience in front of me, sharing photos and stories later. Over time, you’ll see these trickle out on social media, here on the blog, and in presentations.

July and the first part of August (the months tourists traditionally vacation in Sardinia!) found me heads-down at the computer planning new adventures — including the tours of Sardinia that so many of you have requested!

I just released details and registration for two 2026 tours. Both include visits to handweavers featured on this website, plus much more. Check them out: 

The two tours will be a bit different.

In May, we’ll spend more time with handweavers, in textile-related museums, and on textile-related adventures. We’ll also visit natural, historic, and sacred spaces of the island.

In October, we’ll visit the handweavers, yet spend less time on textile-related adventures and more time exploring other arts and cultural, historic, sacred, and natural areas. Weather permitting, the October tour may include a short boat excursion and a guided tour of breathtaking natural caverns.

If you’re a traveler — weaver or not — who wants to experience Sardinia and the island’s beauty, arts, culture, history, nature and textiles, come join me on a tour!  

~Kelly Manjula Koza

© Kelly Manjula Koza unless otherwise noted.