Festa del Ricamo: Maria Concetta Ronchetti

Maria Concetta Ronchetti is one of the most appreciated Italian embroidery designers and a pleasant and recent discover for Casa Cenina. Recently inserted in our catalog, her creations for Antichi Ricami are almost sold-out! Particularly, the Broderie Suisse, a delicate embroidery to make on checked fabric, traditionally red and white, is very successful. As we had already said in a previous post introducing the works by Maria Concetta, this Swiss embroidery technique uses twisted 1-ply threads on fabrics with squares of different dimensions and colors. The several types of stitches (double cross, running and circle stitches) make this embroidery special, easy to realize for all embroiderers, with a guaranteed result! But Maria Concetta has also created some cross-stitch embroideries on one color which are more traditional like this Stemma Nobiliare, of the same colors also this Cavallo Alato, both belonging to the "Fantasy Animals" series. Red is the color of the tradition and, as Maria Concetta likes saying, her embroideries are all "inspired by the past, just the result of a precise and careful work of interpretation of antique patterns, taken from published works mostly during the Italian Renaissance". With this aim, Maria Concetta will present her works at the Festa del Ricamo, by making you know from a closer perspective not only the Broderie Suisse, but also the other sections of her personal catalog: Antichi Ricami.