Transhumance: women's craftmanship

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	The Travel of Transhumance Women's craftsmanship
	Life in a family of shepherds was conditioned by transhumance: every year the men were away many months to bring the flocks to the winter plains or to the summer mountain pastures, women had to look after the house and to manufacture the objects for everyday life, such as dresses and covers, or to spin the wool or the flax, to be loomed in the domestic loom and thus to create cloths which were then cut and sewed in dresses or exchanged or sold to the market. The majority of the objects of everyday life were not purchased, but homemade, thanks to techniques and cultures transferred from father to son or from mother to daughter, often with original patterns and styles different from town to town as for instance in the 70 villages of Amatrice’s territory. Documents were collected in this page thanks to the collaboration of: Luciana Brunamonte, founder of the Association and Documentation Centre “Monti della Laga”, who created and taked care from 1993 of the permanent exhibition of Shepherds and Charcoal Burners “Come si viveva sulla Laga” in the village of San Martino of Amatrice (Rieti). The exhibition before the earthquake could be visited on booking (Luciana Brunamonte tel. 0746 826811). Assunta Perilli, created the “Tessitura a Mano” atelier (Hand Weaving) in the town of Campotosto (L’Aquila). She studies, collects and replicates the ancient cloths of the Central Apennines on the early original looms. The atelier could be visited into the historical centre of Campotosto, or virtually on the"Blog Tessitura a Mano di Assunta Perilli" . Mario Ciaralli of the Cultural Association “Cola dell’Amatrice” which before the earthquake could be visited into the historical centre of Amatrice (Rieti), who published the cultural review “Fidelis Amatrix".
	The “Filarello” was preserved in the Museum of Shepherds and Charcoal Burners in the village of San Martino of Amatrice, a spinning wheel used for twisting wool in a spun yarn.
				Wool cloth weaved at home in the late ‘800 century, was in the Museum of Shepherds and Charcoal Burners of San Martino.


			On the left the ancient original home-used loom of Laga Mountains, nowadays still in use in the hand weaving laboratory of Assunta Perilli in Campostosto.


				Wool textile of the traditional bride dress of Laga Mountains, historical re-elaboration of Assunta Perilli .

		Wool hanks and traditional textiles hand weaved and coloured with natural colours. Historical re-elaboration of Assunta Perilli.

	On the right dress of the late ‘800 century in wool and linen, hand weaved and home sewed, it was in the Museum of Shepherds and Charcoal Burners of San Martino.

		Detail of embroidery for a traditional bride dress, of the early ‘900 century, it was in the Museum of Shepherds and Charcoal Burners of San Martino.

	The historical revival during the parade of “The Travel of Transhumance”


Traditional bride dress of early ‘900 century of the village of Sommati (Amatrice), re-produced from an original that was in the Museum of Shepherds and Charcoal Burners of San Martino.		Traditional dress with ribbons of the village of Castel Trione (Amatrice), re-produced.		Lounge suit in wool of Amatrice late ‘800 – early ‘900 century, re-produced.

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