Spinning, weaving and embroidery

Price: Euro 3,00
(about USD 4,50)

F. Meo, Spinning, weaving and embroidery, Fondazione Giacomini-Meo-Fiorot, 1995

The spinning and weaving section of the Fashion and Costume Museum includes many examples of the different instruments required for these activities. Carders, ripples, spindles, spinning wheels, skein-winders, looms and lace pillows tell the history of weaving from the Seventeen hundreds to the present day. The booklet offers a selection of the most significant exhibits, documented with detailed technical descriptions and a wealth of photographs.
Ninth booklet of Franca Meo’s work “The Women’s Museum” (Fondazione Giacomini-Meo, 1995).
Text in Italian and English. Translated by A. Butcher.

“The custom of giving work instruments as a present [..] was very common among the working classes in the last centuries. They could be simple constructions made of ordinary wood, simply bear a message wishing industriousness, but for special occasions they became absolute jewels, made of precious woods, sculpted with female figures, birds, flowers and geometrical patterns, carefully worked at the lathe”. Franca Meo

33 x 24 cm., 16 pp. colour illustrations