Beautifully illustrated, this book accompanies the third edition of Italia Invita - the International Forum of Lace and Embroidery, a biennial event dedicated to this important aspect of Italy's cultural heritage. an invaluable opportunity for embroiderers and lacemakers to meet and to display and discuss their precious works.
Today, the decision to work with embroidery or lace arises from the makers' desire to explore and express their own creativity through an arts and crafts tradition. Implicitly, this links the practicing embroiderer or lacemaker with the historical undercurrent supporting these techniques, and with this knowledge comes a responsibility for safeguarding and continuing these traditions for future generations. As a contribution to the understanding past and present developments in these areas, this publication includes research into various techniques - this research forms the core topic of the Exhibition La Ricerca ('Research and Development') and the theme of this 2007 Italia Invita forum.

Merletti e Ricami Italiani
Italian Laces and Embroideries - Forum 2007

a cura di Cristina Notore
Casa Editrice Nuova S1
italiano - inglese
Formato: cm. 29,7 x 21,
112 pages and 73 pictures (colours and B/N)
euro 16


Index's Extract:

• p.7 Research and Development of Rosalba Pepi, Italia Invita associazione
• p.9 Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols "Lace and Embroidery: worked since the 17^th century until today - Regrouping and analysis"
• p.22 Stitch's drawings by Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols
• p.28 Glossary of stitches, techniques, categories and types of embroidery and lace found from the XVII Century on, used today in Italy, Italian and English language
• p.39 Bianca Rosa Bellomo "Elisa Ricci's books"
• p.47 Cushions italian techniques Laces and Embroideries