Positano
In a book of John
Steinbeck's essays writen in Europe for Colliers Mag. in the 1950's,
he writes the following about his
visit to a town in Italy named Positano.
"Far up the mountain a
convent looks down on the sea, and here little girls are taught the deliate
and dying art of lacemaking by the sisters. The girls are paid and the
lace is sold to support the school and incidentally the girls. The flying
fingers of the little girls working with hundreds of bobbins make the eye
dizzy, and the children look up and laugh"......
"Some of the work is unbelivable.
We saw a great tablecloth, a spiderweb, intricate as a thought. It was
the work of fifty girls for one year."