Italiano
When you meet a lace maker your welcomed by a ballad of wooden bobbins following a complicated dance rotating between the fingers with incredible ability, at the speed of a game of magic, but as harmonious as the sound produced.
Ul pizz, as it is called in the local dialect, is a type of lace produced by weaving threads, usually cotton, linen or silk, which are wound around bobbins, the oss (bone)
The lace of Cantù
The weaving is worked on a support base, the bolster, consisting of a cylindrical pillow stuffed with horsehair, ul cusin, which is placed on a trestle, ul pundin, and inclined by a small wooden board, the taparela .
A card is also needed to realize the work, the cartina , on which is drawn a trace of the design, this is holed or pierced along the traced lines and fixed to the pillow. Several pins are also needed, the gügitt, to secure the work on the cartina, a crochet hook, ul crüscè, small size (0.40 to 0.60 mm) useful in some points and a pair of small scissors
The creation of a work in Cantu lace requires the contribution of several specific professionals: the designer who creates the designs on the cartina, the spuntatrice who makes the holes on the carton and finally the lace maker who makes the lace.