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Annapaola Cibin’s installation on the roof of Luigi Bevilacqua’s weaving mill is made up of fishes in painted luxury velvets
Treasures to be found: San Zulian
A few steps away from St Mark’s Square lies one of Venice’s hidden treasures: the church of San Zulian, which holds, among other treasures, Bevilacqua’s Italian upholstery velvet
Walking along the Silk Road
Lampasses, velvets, damasks and brocades have something in common, the core and secret of their preciousness. That something is silk, the raw material behind each of these fabrics. But where does silk come from? Luxury fabric silk comes to Europe From silkworms, you...
The fruits of downfall
Let’s take a look at some history and at what was going on, in Venice and in the rest of the world, when Luigi Bevilacqua’s Weaving Mill became a real company in 1875. We will start from an end, i.e. the windup of craft guilds in Venice, ordered by one of Napoleon’s...
The velvet armour: Yiqing Yin
A garment which can protect and give strength to whom wears it, being both as natural as a second skin and as shielding as an armour: this is the mission which the young - she was born in 1985 - stylist Yiqing Yin has chosen to draw inspiration from for her creations....
Venice and Istanbul: enlaced relationships unravelled by an exhibition
This is one of those stories where you can hardly tell the pupil and the teacher apart: the Venetian and Ottoman fabric manufacturies are as interwoven as the patterns of the fabrics they exported and imported, due to their age-old cultural and commercial comings and...
Venedig für Kenner, that is Venice as seen by Germany
"Venice for connoisseurs": that’s the headline of today’s Weltkunst, the art magazine of Die Zeit, which is dedicated to the lagoon city. Petra Schäfer describes first of all some of Venice’s swellest hotels, restaurants and attractions, some of which often stand in...
Silk Map: when art meets traditional crafts
From June 1 to November 24, on the occasion of the 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the Venice Pavilion will host the project Silk Map, a tribute paid to the weaving tradition, the so-called ”soft art”, through the combination of art and...
The golden age of Venetian velvet
The ancient weaving mill Luigi Bevilacqua presents a new collection of velvets, inspired by the golden age of the Republic of Venice: the 16th century. The influence of oriental patterns on Venetian velvet in the 16th century The four patterns Sforza, Ca' d'Oro,...
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