The Tombolo (pillow lace) of St. Paolina ( Avellino - Italy)
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In Paolina Saint, just two steps from Avellino, the working of the Tombolo or of " pizzillo " has secular origins and is a typically feminine occupation. The children from the 6 years  on can begin with easy designs, then move on to the important ones that demand the use of numerious fuselli (bobbins).  To Paolina Saint are calls " tommarielli " and they are not other that of the carved rods of wood on the whose top is wrapped with cotton thread  with which pattern is executed.  Threads come in ecrù, white or,  very rarely executed with colorful thread.
For being able to work a peak or a lace to tombolo, it is necessary a straw pillow, in kind of cylindrical shape, that it comes rested on one scanno. On the fixed pillow a cardboard on which already it has been designed or outlined with of the small holes, the design that is wanted to be realized. Then they fix to the initial point, with two or three pins, all the tommarielli indispensable for that job,   some of which are held in hand dalla  pizzillara, others left to penzolare from the pillow. The two spin ends complete one run in ahead and behind, while those headquarters remain firm for being interlaced from the sinuoso way of the extreme wires. Through their skillful use and I interlace, slowly slowly the lace or peak comes outside that can have one more or less wide weft. They are the two types of working that execute Poalina  Saint and also the designs change second if the ancient technique or that modern one is used. Before it is I interlace that it leave from a minimum of 50 fuselli but that it can arrive also to 238 if the so-called leaf of grape, that it is one of the characterizing reasons the tombolo of Paolina Saint, with to the fish thorn, to the storta, to the way nova and the rummolillo is wanted to be realized. Even if until little ago one believed that the tombolo he was worked exclusively to Paolina Saint, today us has had to ricredere, inasmuch as also in many other European cities exist the same working. That that but it is exclusive of Poalina saint is the designs of the ancient working that takes cue from motivi  that they are recalled mostly to the nature, like the leaf of grape, the thorn of fish and the way nova that, instead, copy the profile to hairpin curves of the old road for Foggia. The storta it is a weft that does not follow a precise design, while the rummolillo it is a geometric reason to rumbles. In the modern technique, instead, the number of the fuselli is decidedly inferior. Ne is always necessary approximately fourteen and however in equal number. In this type of working it is possible to have a trina that it represents I interlace it of base, on which a true and own weft realized with torcini (a coiled wire), the rosettes (a design to three petals of which two to trina and one to torcino), or to average last, obtained is constructed then making to move only one of the two fuselli extreme and obtaining therefore one pierced weft. E' possible also to realize the so-called cantù or cacchiariello that it is a particular design that forms of the intentional ones around to the realized job, nearly for completarlo and abbellirlo. In the modern working, devised the design, it is filled up with a trina that runs up and down also forming of the intentional ones. The empty ones left between the trine come filled up from the fastenings, cordoncini applied to uncinetto in the moment in which a part of design or working with the tommarielli is finished. The fastenings, typical only of the tombolo modern, have lengths that can vary from i 2 milimeter to i simple or multiple 2 cm and to be. The pizzilli they can be used is like edges that like applications. In this case the peak realized fixed, as an example, on a table cloth or a linen sheet and applies with needle and wire just forming a true one and cordoncino. Then the stoffa is cut to of under leaving therefore the design traforato.