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National Geographic : 1951 Sep
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Young Needle Experts ) Ply Their Trade at Asolo These Italian girls work in a school founded by Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, son of the English poet. Here they learn to embroider old designs on tablecloths, nap kins, and cushions. Workman ship is so fine that it is diffi cult to tell front from back. A window of the needlework school frames "Pippa's Tower," built by the younger Brown ing. It overlooks the plain ex tending toward Venice. Asolo was the setting for the elder Browning's poem, Pippa Passes. Eleonora Duse, the famous Italian actress, is buried in Asolo, where she had a sum mer home. 4 Making Cheese, He Combs the Curd Before It Settles With a wooden crane Simon Domenico swings a copper cal dron off the fire in his cottage at San Martino di Castrozza. Each filling of the pot yields four 10-pound cheeses. © National Geographic Society Kodachroines by Volkmar WVentzel 407
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