Burano (one of the Lagoon’s most prominant islands) is (”ormai”, or better to say was) famous for its lacework.
Nowadays they can’t find any young apprentices willing to learn the old skills of the trade for the salaries that they can reasonably pay. “Too much work” or “No future in it” seem to be common responses amongst younger Venetian women.
Sad, but true.
I thought the poem fragment was interesting:
“For, sinuous and delicate
as the work of its spools,
Venice resembles agate
with its veins of canals . . .”
Is (was) Venice famous for its lace?
Burano (one of the Lagoon’s most prominant islands) is (”ormai”, or better to say was) famous for its lacework.
Nowadays they can’t find any young apprentices willing to learn the old skills of the trade for the salaries that they can reasonably pay. “Too much work” or “No future in it” seem to be common responses amongst younger Venetian women.
Sad, but true.