USED GOOD CONDITION EMBROIDERY vol.2 1870 PAPERBACK

In the lace and embroidered fabrics of the past, the history of European women is written from ancient times to the beginning of our century; for millennia, generations of grandmothers, mothers and daughters have handed down the precious culture of lace, perhaps the only form of art, together with cooking, granted to the female world, the only expressive tool that women have had available to express his own aesthetic sensibility and his own creativity.

And although for a long time considered a minor artistic manifestation, the production of openwork and embroidery of the past has left us real masterpieces written in needle, objects on which the taste and discreet love for beauty of so many that we imagine today has been transfused. bent over the loom in the endless winter nights, engaged in a patient game of stitches and threads.

In this way dream kits materialized, in which each garment represented a story in itself, special and unrepeatable. Nowadays, characterized by mass production and the repetition of standardized and impersonal industrial