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New to this? Every page opens with a plain-language explanation before the detail begins, and technical terms are expanded where they appear.

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You already know the vocabulary. Straight to the substance, with the introductory explanations hidden. This is the default.

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470 entries across tailoring, shoemaking, cloth and craft Reference publication: we sell nothing and rank nobody for payment Every figure carries its source and the date it was checked

Free API

Read-only JSON over the same records the pages render. No key, no account, no rate limit beyond ordinary politeness. Please use this rather than scraping the HTML.

Endpoints

/api/v1/kinds
Every entity type, its URL prefix and how many records it holds.
/api/v1/entities?kind=house&country=italy
List records. Filters: kind, country, city, limit.
/api/v1/entity/house/kiton
One record in full, with prices, sources, images and relationships.
/api/v1/makers?discipline=tailoring
The filterable maker table: services, construction, lead times.
/api/v1/prices?service_level=bespoke
Price observations with currency, date, basis and source.
/api/v1/glossary
Every glossary term and its definition.
/api/map.json
Coordinates for everything on the map.

Using it responsibly

Responses are cached for thirty minutes and carry Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. If you need the whole database, fetch /api/v1/entities?limit=500 per kind rather than walking every detail endpoint.

The obligation that comes with the price data

Every price row carries observed, basis and confidence. If you republish these figures, carry those fields with them. A price without its date is not information, and presenting one of ours as a current quotation would misrepresent both us and the house. Attribution (a link back to the page) is appreciated and required by the terms for systematic use.

Image rows carry their creator, source, licence and licence URL. The licence, not our terms, governs what you may do with a photograph; carry the credit.