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Working hands. Bizzilla, or traditional maltese lace-making
2012-05-19
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Traditional Maltese Lace-making. Maltese lace is a style of bobbin lace made in Malta. The ancient craft of lace making (maltese ‘il-bizzilla’), became popular in Gozo around the mid 1840’s and is a style of bobbin lace made using silk or linen thread worked as a continuous piece onto a tall, thin, upright hard pillow called a ‘trajbu’ made from straw and paper.
