The Workshop

A place
where
embroidery
comes
back to life.

In the Ciminna workshop every stitch is decided before the hand moves. The frames, the spools of burnished gold, the fine fabrics, the details in coral and hardstone: everything has a place, a time, a logic. There is no rush here, and it shows in the result.

Wooden spools with gold and silver threads on a red ground

Lily embroidered in gold in progress, with scissors and pincushion

Michele Cassata in his workshop beside the hanging vestments

When practice
is memory

A place where the craft stays intact. What has worked for centuries is not modernised. Michele Cassata embroiders the way they embroidered before him, aware that every generation is only one passage in a longer story.