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Learn to Needlepoint at Casa Belvedere! 

Thursdays, May 4 to May 25, 7 to 8:30 pm

$105 members, $120 non-members 

Assisi work is a kind of hand embroidery that originated in Medieval Italy. The technique produces a colored background where the motif in the design is void – that is, left blank. So, you get the color background, and the design stands out because it is not colored. Assisi work was popular as an ecclesiastical embroidery technique, where rich designs would be worked for altar frontals, vestments, and other church uses. The name originates from the town of Assisi, where this technique was often worked in convents responsible for providing church textiles.