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Feb/Mar 2014:Issue #1
Page Count: 48
Notes:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURES
- Orecchini con fiore doppio
by DMC
- Collier nero con perle
by
- Orecchini con pendente azzurro
by DMC
- Spilla porte-bonheur(ladybug Pin)
by DMC
- Orecchini tzigani
by DMC
- Bracciali con turchesi
by DMC
- Parure bianca
by DMC
- Parure dai colori autunnali
by Lizbeth
- Orecchnini bruniti tridemensionali
by DMC
- Parure dorata con granati
by DMC
- Orecchini solari
- Orecchini portafortuna
by DMC
- Collier rosone viola
by DMC
- Orecchini celtici
by DMC
- Parure fine ottocento
by DMC
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Magazine Title: IL MIO Chiacchierino
Editor(s): Spazio Ricamo, Alessandro Santucci
Publication Frequency: Bi-Monthly
Began Publication: February 2014
Ended Publication: Sept/Oct. 2016
Published by: Cigra, Italy
Average Page Count: 48
Magazine Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISSN: 2284-1008
NOTE: ALL COVER IMAGES THIS PAGE ARE PROPERTY OF
PUBLISHER, but are scanned from my private collection.
SUMMARY: I am very excited to set up this page. It's been over a year since this magazine first started, but because it costs about $22 an issue to import to the USA, I hadn't been able to get my hands on any issues till now. This is the first commercially available full-color magazine dedicated solely to tatting that I have found! Slick pages and graphics!! Hot models and photography worthy of a Japanese craft book!!! And we don't have to share!!!! Tatting is no longer the afterthought, the token, the red-headed stepchild of the needlework world. In Italy, it has arrived, front and center, and middle and in the back - 48 pages of nothing but chiacchierino-frivolité-occhi-schiffchenspitze-tatting, oh, and a few ads. I can live with a few ads. And there's a very nicely illustrated needle tatting tutorial in the back. The only thing that spoiled my pleasure browsing its pages was the lack of designer's names. I see DMC, and Lizbeth, thread manufacturers' names I recognize for their high quality threads, so the patterns probably came from the thread manufacturers, and they historically don't like to recognize their employees. You can see that in every needlecraft magazine of the 20th century from America. A shame that. I'm sure they have their reasons. Are they good reasons? I don't care. It's appalling bad manners not to give credit where it is due. Those that I recognized the thread name, I put in the "by" line to give what clue I could to origins. All the patterns are for jewelry - and you get such a wide variety in each issue: collier(necklace), orecchini(earrings), bracciale(bracelet)! But no edgings or motifs for doilies, clothes, or tablecloths. A lot of the patterns look simple enough for a beginner to tackle, so long as they know the basics(rings, chains, joins) and can read a diagram. The diagrams are big and beautiful. There are no written instructions other than the legend to read the diagrams, and your supply list for each project. Print is nice and big, so if you can read Italian, this magazine will be a pleasure. And if you can't read Italian, I think you will still enjoy it and be able to use it!
I hope they will change their policy on not citing the designers. We will never know how many of the "Workbasket" tatting patterns were designed by Myrtle Hamilton, who nearly single-handedly kept tatting alive in the USA through some pretty sparse decades, because "Workbasket" had a policy not to acknowledge the designers. The building burned, records were lost, and now we'll never know just how large her legacy was to us. We can guess, from design habits and preferences, but we can't KNOW. That is shameful. I hope this otherwise lovely and well executed magazine will rethink this particular policy and insist on credit due the talents that made the magazine possible.
My second wish is that they find an American or Canadian publisher willing to produce an edition that can be distributed more economically here. The title has survived over a year, so I have hope that it will get noticed and a deal made. I would have expected the first full real magazine to have started in Japan, where most of the innovations have been taking place for the last decade or so, but Italy got the honor, and they are looking quite good doing it. Congratulations!
Further Note(2017): I finally got the last issue of this lovely magazine from last year. It has been over a year now since a new issue has been put out, so I'm guessing they have moved on to other craft titles. It's sad - only fifteen issues all together. This and "Fairy Hands" put out some beautiful magazines.
They have a website: http://www.cigra.it/ .
Anyone with more information about this publication, or has issues to donate or sell, can contact me through My Contact Page.
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