Contemporary rug PEZZARA

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Leather and the art of Pezzara Pezzara is the rediscovery of a millenary craft tradition, which flourished within the agro-pastoral communities in Puglia, Calabria and Sicily. Women piled up the waste fibres from various fabrics or shorn wool, or macerated linen or broom fibres to make heavy hanks of filaments. Colours depended either on the natural hues of the fleece or on dyes. These were made by drying or infusing insects,walnut shells, laurel leaves and pomegranate skins. In the end, the looms gave life to artisan blankets and rugs, dyed and patterned with embroidery and colours from the traditional Mediterranean culture. Pezzara, pure authentic art, is the spontaneous result of the capacity to create fabrics and artistic products of great appeal from disorder and inert waste materials. Recuperating the teachings of this southern Italian craft tradition, Studioart today renews the art of rag-rug making using an original material – leather. The result of this artistic intuition speaks for itself. Each weft thread is made up of leather laces and woven into the cotton warp threads with handicraft techniques. The end results are meticulously made rugs that preserve the appeal of the ancient art of rag-rug making, adding the emotion that a material like leather arouses.