Un merletto per Venezia

Amalia Rossi, Bagliori di luce, Sezione Merletto ad ago
Amalia Rossi, Bagliori di luce, Sezione Merletto ad ago

 

From 12 Settembre 2015 to 31 Gennaio 2016

Venice

Place: Lace Museum

Address: piazza Galoppi 187, Burano

Times: 10am-05pm

Responsibles: Chiara Squarcina

Organizers:

  • Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Ticket price: full € 5, reduced € 3.50

Telefono per informazioni: +39 041 730034

E-Mail info: museo.merletto@fmcvenezia.it

Official site: http://museomerletto.visitmuve.it


The almost 100 works produced for the first edition of the Needle and bobbin lace competition. Lace for Venice will be put on show in a special exhibition at the museum in Burano.
The use solely of needles for making lace is typical of Burano; the original lace of the island stands out for the great complexity of the patterns and techniques employed, for the use of very slender threads (of cotton, silk, gold or silver gilt) and long work processes, for which study and experience lasting decades were necessary.
Bobbin lace is faster to make and technically less demanding; within the lagoon of Venice, this form of production became typical of Pellestrina. 
The idea promoted by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia appears alongside other activities whose aims are to maintain a lively executive or artistic interest in a medium that presents an original face with regard to contemporary models too. What emerges from these initiatives is a new role for lace which, as autonomous work,abandons its role in clothing and furnishing in favour of a fresh expressiveness.


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