Rapallo: bobbin lace workers (tombolo)

Date: 1880 approx.
Object type and technique: negative on gelatine plate ; cm 24 x 30
Photographic Archive of Genoa Municipality, inv. 26950

Description:
One of the most characteristic professions of the East Riviera captured by the best known landscape photographer active in Genoa. The art of bobbin lace: a land of slow patience and women's hands and eyes, a source to improve the domestic income. It is an example of poor people knowledge destined to adorn the houses of the wealthy (or to embellish the wedding trousseau).