The legend tells that a Venetian sailor young man took from far seas to his loved a sea alga and she has wanted to preserve memory copying it exactly, using of the simple thread. The manufacturing of the Burano lace was spread in the Republic of Venice in 1500.
THE LACE OF BURANO STEP BY STEP
The lace is handmade and it is necessary use as follows: a pillow of cylinder shape, stuffing of straw, of about 50 centimetres, a stick of wood of cylindrical shape ("morello") in order to support the fixed job to a side of the pillow Through a needle, needles are used, thickness 8,9 and/or 10 using cotton thread, thickness 10, 40 and/or 100. The technique of realisation of the lace with the above-mentioned kind of needles and thread is exclusive of Burano Island (Venice). Nowadays carried out only from the "merlettaie" working in the museum of the lace to Burano. (See the photo).
The steps for making the lace of Burano are mainly 7:
1.Design on special paper, using pen to black ink; 2.Warp: the design is sewn on crude paper and woven by traditional sewing machine following the shape of the design; 3. Ghipur (from the Greek language): regarding basic point the first decorative phase obtained with great variety of "sottopunti" (sacola fisso/ciara, greco, creme, tondo etc.); 4. Barette o sbari: is "punto Venezia"; 5. Rede: is "punto Burano"; 6. Rilievo: it is the phase during which the border is created; 7. the lace is taken off the paper with a blade and it is cleaned by the residuals of seams ;
BIRTH AND DEVELOP OF THE LACE IN VENEZIA
In the XVI century (1500) is born, probably really in Venice, the art of the lace to needle, and they are initially the same noblewomen to devote its to such activity. Subsequently, in the XVII century, in consequence of the big diffusion of the lace be in the male fashion than in the female one, the production is organised in the convents, the religious institutes and at home. In the XVII century (1600) the production of the lace reaches in the islands of the lagoon of Venice really considerable proportions. The Venetian lace spreads himself in all Europe and becomes symbol, for his preciousness and refinement, of prestige and social status. At the end of the XVIII century (1700), with preferring a comfortable and functional way of dressing, which the use of the lace almost excludes completely in the suits, the lace goes meet to a deep crisis phase. In XVIIII century, despite the cheap and social transformations for coming of the industrial revolution, the Venetian lace is equally able to exceed a difficult phase.
