Instruments made in the Cremona craft technique must:

• be made without the use of the equipment or techniques used for large-scale industrial production;
• be varnished without the use of spray paints, regardless of whether they are pressurized;
• be made and finished in the maker's workshop without the use of industrial semifinished products except for the following accessory parts: bridge, fingerboard, upper and lower nuts, chin rest, soundpost and purflings;
• be made from the following materials: spruce, maple, ebony, willow, poplar, rosewood, mahogany, cedar and/or other types of wood that are traditionally used to make the instruments.