Once primarily a trim, trapunto is made using quilting placed between two layers of fabric, often satin, and sewn together with single, straight stitches. A trapunto bodice over a plain crepe or ...

The experts agree that the fabric itself — calamanco — is whole ... which features a “Tree of Life” pattern and elaborate trapunto work, is extremely rare, as no other similarly patterned ...

After all, when one works wonders in fabric for the human body ... of curiosities such as a hat shaped like a lamb chop and a trapunto gown that made the wearer resemble a walking skeleton ...

Today, she is increasingly recognised as a pioneer who helped dislodge the “folksy” image of fabric art with her highly charged creations. Abad was best known for adapting the trapunto ...