Though I have told you many things about my trip to the Italia Invita Forum in May 2011 in posts about Puncetto , Deruta Drawn-Threadwork...

Way back in this post , I promised to let you know how my experiments with Umbrian Embroidery went. Recently I finally had some time to de...

A very refreshing and colourful approach to an ancient Italian traditional needlework technique! This new book by Paola Barbieri , publi...

I just have to re-direct you over to Silvia's blog Dentelles d'Abord for lots of links to old films on YouTube on lace and embroid...

Most days, 50% or more of my readers come from Italy. I find this odd as I started this blog with the idea of exposing "English-speakin...

The other day, surfing around as one does, I stumbled upon a spectacular Flickr folder full of amazing works of art done in Pizzo Margaret...

Some years ago while searching in the World Catalogue , I came across a book published in 1917 by Theresa Rizzi . It was called: Poncetto La...