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Veronese Crochet Lace - prizewinner
Every year I long to attend (but never have) the Hand Embroidery and Weaving Exhibition at Valtopina in Perugia. I search the internet for reports from attendees and drool over photos posted on blogs...
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The 20 finalists are posted on the A Mirror to my Art blog this, as you may recall, is a needlework challenge put on by the Needleprint blog for hand-held mirror needlework, I talked about it here. I...
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Lace Exhibit at the Met Museum in New York
If you find yourself anywhere near the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before January 13, 2013, check out their Gems of European Lace exhibit at the Antonio Ratti Textile Centre!Taken from the...
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Gigliuccio Hemstitch - Embroidery Canada
A note to let Canadian readers know that in the fall 2012 issue of the Embroiderer's Association of Canada (EAC)'s magazine Embroidery Canada, the last photo of my article on the Gigliuccio Hemstitch...
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Punto Maglie
Photo copyright Associazione Punto Maglie.The town of Maglie is located in the Apulia region of south-east Italy. The heel of the boot if your Italian geography is a little vague.Punto Maglie or Maglie...
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Ricamo Italiano - Digital Magazine
I used to subscribe to one of the Italian needlework magazines called Ricamo Italiano which started up in the fall of 2004. The subscription for overseas was about double the European price but at the...
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Italia Invita 2013
The 6th International Italia Invita Forum of Textile Creativity has updated their website to include the theme and competitions for the next Italia Invita Forum in Parma, Italy on May 10 - 12th,...
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Scuola d'Industrie Italiane - Piecework article
For those who enjoy a good story to go along with your needlework, check out the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Piecework magazine:Inside you will find the story of the Scuola d'Industrie Italiane of New York...
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Embroidery using a hoop
For those who would like to learn to use an embroidery hoop to aid in creating beautiful traditional needlework, Anna Rondelli of Bologna has just released her second publication: Ricamo a Telaio...
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Punto Maglie - prizewinner
Back in September I told you about the Hand Embroidery and Weaving Exhibition in Valtopina and how some Veronese Crochet Lace split the prize for the lace category with some Punto Maglie needle lace....
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Deruta Drawn Thread Work Sample
I seem to have less and less time for my blog as I do more and more translations but I cannot give it up just yet. Quickly I want to tell you a fun story.Some years ago I corresponded with Maria Elide...
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English Insert for Il Reticello by Paola Barbieri
A quick note to let you know that the English translation booklet (pictured above) is now available for the book Il Reticello interpretata da Paola Barbieri published by l'Associazione Il Punto...
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Italian Finalists - A Mirror to my Art Contest
You have seen several posts here regarding the Needleprint blog's A Mirror to my Art Contest. I was personally very taken with the concept and enthusiastic to invite some of Italy's needleworkers to...
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Christmas Macrame
I finally treated myself to Adriana Lazzari's Christmas Macrame book, I've been looking at it since it come out in 2009.Some years ago I tried to create a Santa Claus out of Macrame from a RAKAM...
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Genoese Needlework, Textiles and Fashion - Part One
I know almost nothing about Genoa, Italy in relation to textiles. I've never been there and so it is conspicuously missing from the range of needlework that I've talked about here.I was recently...
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Cadolingio Embroidery
Ebe Ciampalini Balestri has just released her latest book, this time it is a style of embroidery which she invented herself, inspired by the ruins of an ancient castle near where she lives in Tuscany....
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Excellent Puncetto Needle Lace Tutorial Online
Way back in April of 2012, Carmen wrote to tell me about Brona who had posted a tutorial on her blog for Puncetto needle lace. Now when you send me emails, I always save them in my in-basket until I...
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Aemilia Ars Flower Freebie
As a New Year's gift, the Association "I Merletti di Antonilla Cantelli" of Bologna has made an Aemilia Ars needle lace instruction booklet available for free download on their website.This is such a...
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Textile History in Genoa
From time to time, readers write and ask me about Italian textiles from various Italian cities that I have not previously mentioned. Either they have some family ancestors who come from these cities or...
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Lace Collection - Genoa
Jewels of Thread is the English translation for the title of the catalogue for the laces in the Genoese public collections.This catalogue of the first of a planned series of exhibitions of almost the...
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