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Sicilia - 2009

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Ear of Dionysus

In May 2009, Prof. Lucia Mangiafico http://www.onlusmanidoro.it/ held in Syracuse on the first Interregional Conference on Applied Arts. Along with embroidery
M. Pia Gaiart I have represented the region Friuli Venezia Giulia for bobbin lace.
The days devoted to lectures and discussions with qualified assistance of historians, politicians and artists, have highlighted the difficulties involved, for several reasons, the true arts and crafts. There was no talk of "hobby" that makes the flower groups, chats, blogs and more, but the difficulty that if he meets the artist craftsman emerge, take abroad a unique and valuable product with the correct value. From the various interventions showed the same problem: lack of a sound education.

I thought I'd dedicate a "creative thinking" to the generous land that hosted us in building this "Sicily" jewel.

The idea was not new, others had already done the Regions in bobbin lace, and the idea of \u200b\u200ba "jewel of Sicily" was sincerely kitch ... perhaps, than would have been a presentation on glass, a picture ... However, I anticipated
to Prof. Mangiafico, I knew that was never worn ... and so, along with valuable works where the 'manual art vied with different creativity of our beautiful Italy, also peep my necklace.
It was a great creative effort to draw the Sicily, where major cities are marked with the corals, and ethnicity - in a virtual eruption of lava-emerge in different colored pearls.
Even the black lava beads are too large in proportion, but that was what I had available ...