Brocades, silks and beautifully worked velvets are the testimony of a true art – that of Testori da seda, or Weavers of Silk. In the mid-eighteenth century Venice had 795 weavers and the Ghetto was surrounded on all sides by hundreds of Christian weavers’ shops. Jews were not allowed to weave, but could only trade strazze – raw silk waste. The exhibition retraces these intertwining stories, offering visitors the chance to admire precious fabrics linked to the Jewish liturgy, exhibited after careful restoration and belonging to the collections of the Jewish Museum of Venice. Three centuries of history narrated through textiles.
