Dettagli del volume: Elisa Ricci - Ricami italiani antichi e moderni

The volume is a reprint of one of the Elisa Ricci's most important publications.

Elisa Ricci was a renowned expert of lace and embroidery in early 1900.

The book was first published in 1925 by Le Monnier, Florence.

To the original text is added a comprehensive and detailed index as well a preface.

Cover picture shows a sixteenth century embroidery, already described by Elisa Ricci inside the book. The original one is preserved in a Turin Museum and is one of the innumerable recovering in the untiring research of Bianca Rosa Bellomo about lace and embroidery history and Elisa Ricci's life.

	Format: cm 17x24 pp. 336
	ISBN code: 88-89262-09-5
	Price: € 18,20
	Editor: Bianca Rosa Bellomo

For orders from other countries than Italy, please contact: www.libroco.it

Elisa Ricci (1858 - 1945) was one of the greatest Italian experts on
Applied Arts of the first decades of the twentieth century and is well
known to the English-speaking world for her work entitled "Old Italian
Lace" (1913), which is still considered excellent reference material
today. The volume "Ricami Italiani antichi e moderni" is one of her most
important and significant works and was printed for the first time in
1925 by Le Monnier of Florence, Italy. It is divided into two parts:
Ricami antichi (history of embroidery), and Ricami moderni (Italian
embroidery from the end of the 1800s).
A preface (written by the editor Bianca Rosa Bellomo who has been
researching biographical and bibliographical material on Elisa Ricci for
the past few years) has been added to the original work as well as a
detailed index of names and quoted texts which gives readers quick and
easy reference to the subjects. Page numbers have been added to the
pages with photos and the orientation of some images has been changed
for the reader's convenience. "Ricami Italiani antichi e moderni" contains
146 black and white photos and is written in Italian. You can get one at:
http://www.libroco.it (search the title) the website can be read in english and you can use a credit card. 18,20 euros

(Many thanks to Jeanine in Canada for the help!)


Original cover of 1925	Elisa Ricci