Room 10: Female works

Silent but irreplaceable the role of the woman, wife, mother and mistress, when she didn't place side by side her husband in the agricultural jobs. The room illustrates the female universe in the country civilization that reserved to the man a dominant space.

The run of the room rotates around the loom. It is not difficult to imagine its deep noise to beat time and two fast and punctual hands at work.

Icon of a patient and silent manual ability, the matrimonial dowry is suggested here by the linen put in the typical chest. Methodic gestures embellished the nuptial outfit with embroideries. Suggestive the angle with the different table looms and the lace pillow, symbol and charm of the past time.