We visited the workshop of Luigi Bevilacqua, which still has fourteen looms from the eighteenth century where they handweave velvets, damasks and brocades to historic patterns. It may just be preserved as a historic relic, but what a relic:-
We visited the workshop of Luigi Bevilacqua, which still has fourteen looms from the eighteenth century where they handweave velvets, damasks and brocades to historic patterns. It may just be preserved as a historic relic, but what a relic:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
An amazement, to see the history of this form of making….Louise Bourgeois would have apprecaited this….
R
Yes, it has an amazing sense of the continuity of workshop practice – and beautiful as well. Charles