The Scuola dei Laneri (woolen mills) is a building formerly the seat of the homonymous brotherhood of trades and devotion of Venice located in Salizada San Pantalon in the Santa Croce district in Venice
The art of ancient foundation was devoted to San Bernardino to whom he had dedicated an altar in the nearby church of San Pantalon in 1541, then renovated and blessed again in 1684 and still existing. Having bought land in 1613, they built their own school there, but the building was destroyed by fire in 1620 and then rebuilt in 1633, probably to a design by Longhena. The organization was divided into colonels (sections) according to the activity carried out: the vergheri (wool beaters), the combers, the startesini (carders) and so on. The institution was suppressed by the Venetian Senate in 1786 and the properties auctioned off to settle liabilities. According to Boschini, a canvas by Alessandro Varotari was exhibited in one of the rooms, which represented a Sermon by San Bernardino, now lost.
The smooth Istrian stone facing of the facade, the only visible side, is opened on the first floor by an uninterrupted series of arched doors and windows; the second floor is illuminated by two mullioned windows decorated with Ionic capitals and feminine masks in arched key, moved to the extreme sides, and in the center there is an aedicule with a niche intended to contain a statue of the patron saint; the top floor instead has four oval windows decorated with a scroll motif and aligned with the openings of the mullioned windows below.