Category: Traditional Dress
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Coral Salt Earrings
Jewelry-designer Daniela Neri created these unique earrings that recall Sicilian ceramics with tarantella dancers. Daniela is a native of Trapani, and she takes the salt from the local salt flats and makes “coral” out of it–in other words, the beads that you see are not made of semi-precious stones, shells, coral, or glass, but of…
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A Woman with a Vision
A working woman with a vision: detail from a painting in the chambers at Palermo’s Palazzo dei Normanni, the house of Sicily’s parliament.
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We’re Waiting for Her
Terracotta statuette of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, from Morgantina’s North Sanctuary, c.300 BC.
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Fantastic Floats
Colorful, illuminated floats from Saturday’s Carnevale parade at Acireale. (Photo Credit: Experience Sicily’s Evelina Buttitta Rubino)
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Delicate Craft
Delicate enough to be framed, this lace necklace (photographed at Villa Trigona in Piazza Armerina), was created with a technique called tatting. Tatting, which is called “chiacchierino” in Italian, is a craft that’s been practiced by Sicilian women for centuries. Designs are created using thick thread that is manipulated by hand in a series of…
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She’s Finally Home
At Aidone, finally, is one of the most magnificent statues of a goddess from the ancient Greek era. Dated to be from 410 BC, the figure’s torso was carved using limestone from a quarry near Ragusa and her head and arms from imported Parian marbel. It was produced using a pseudo-acrolithic technique, giving her chiton…
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What She Wore
19th century traditional dress of a woman from the “environs of Agrigento.”
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Evening Gown From Caltagirone, Sicily
Evening gown from Caltagirone, 1850s. #gown #abito #19thcentury #caltagirone #sicily #sicilia #siciliabedda #italy #italia #sicily_tourism #sicilytourism #sicilytravel #sicily_travel #ig_sicily #siciliaph #siciliafoto #fotosicilia #igerssicilia #instasicilia #ig_sicily #igfriends_sicilia #gf_italy #experiencesicily
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Taormina Fashion of the Past
Traditional dress of a peasant woman from Taormina carrying terracotta jug, which was a common way to transport foodstuffs such as wine, olive oil, and water. #sicily #sicily_travel #sicilia #sicily_tourism #italy #ig_sicily #italia #siciliaph #taormina #dress #costume #peasant #jug #terracotta