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Fragment of Milanese bobbin lace, dating from the 17th century Milano, bobina di pizzo per balza da camice, in punto di milano, 1650-1700 ca. 02. Milanese bobbin lace is a textile used as a fashion accessory or a decorative trim, first becoming popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in Milan.
Hungarian point (punto unghero) - in Italian, Bargello is known as "Hungarian Point", [1] [2] indicating that the Florentines believed the technique originated in Hungary. However, English embroidery vocabulary also includes a diamond-shaped stitch called Hungarian point, so few English-language books use this term to refer to Bargello.
By the 15th century, they were creating bold and intricate variations on an undulating "pomegranate pattern" (a name applied later, to encompass any design incorporating the pomegranate motif, even where the motifs came to more closely resemble flora such artichokes, thistles, lotus and palmettes). These grand, symmetrical, vegetal designs were ...
Pattern for a simple Assisi bird motif. Assisi embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian needlework tradition in which the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are outlined but not stitched. The name is derived from the Italian town of Assisi where the modern form of the craft ...
ROME (Reuters) -Italy on Tuesday protested to Hungary over the treatment of an Italian woman who appeared in a Budapest court chained and shackled for a hearing in an assault case. Images of ...
Pine pattern collar in tatting. Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series of knots and loops. [1] Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, accessories such as earrings, necklaces, waist beads, and other decorative pieces.
Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome. [8] Her mother, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, [9] was a Neapolitan aristocrat. [10] Her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, a Piedmontese, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest. [11]
These consist of full-size patterns to be printed on a large format printer and or in a tiled version that can be printed and taped together. [4] [5] [6] Clothkits devised cut-and-sew clothing kits for home sewing that avoided the need for paper patterns. Clothkits printed designs and the pattern lines on fabric. [7]