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IN HER HANDS by Alessandra de Nitto
“NEEDLES ARE MY BRUSHES, THREADS MY PIGMENTS, PRECIOUS FABRICS MY CANVASES” CECILIA PIACITELLI ROGER, MASTER EMBROIDERER
This page, beaded embroidery handbag. Opposite page, some of Cecilia Piacitelli Roger’s tools. From top: bamboo tweezers; copper coloured gold leaf; boar’s hair brush for painting on silk; eyeglasses; handmade needles; Japanese scissors; wooden komas with silver and gold thread; three brushes of mixed goat/boar hair; red sealing wax; Paulownia-wood étui for needles, tekobari and scissors; two steel tekobaris used for work on delicate points in the embroidery.
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