A piece of (Italian) history

20/11/2015

Tessiture Bevilacqua has been producing Venetian fabrics since 1700: so the Italian Chambers of Commerce named it Historical company of Italy

The fair silk way

23/7/2015

On June 17th, 2015, in Padua, a new cluster of enterprises was presented to the public, which has managed to breath new life into the production of silk in Italy

Venice and Istanbul: enlaced relationships unravelled by an exhibition

4/2/2014

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

4/6/2013

“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...

Silk Map: when art meets traditional crafts

9/5/2013

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...