# Working hands. Bizzilla, or traditional maltese lace-making

- By: Renata Apan
- Date: 2012-05-19
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_hands._Bizzilla,_or_traditional_maltese_lace-making.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/b/b5/Working_hands._Bizzilla%2C_or_traditional_maltese_lace-making.jpg/1920px-Working_hands._Bizzilla%2C_or_traditional_maltese_lace-making.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.