In the 1930s, Pablo Neruda bought a house that he will always love in Isla Negra, a coastal fishing town in Chile. Years later, “the embroiderers of Isla Negra,” the poet recounted, “began to flourish. Each house brought out an embroidery like a flower.” The houses were filled with “threads of colour, of heavenly innocence.” The Bordadoras soon rose to the worldwide fame that continues to this day. “This explains why my poetry took root here.”
