| There is a magical world that belong to the
watercolors of Laura Lattuada... An enchanted world of Fairies and Passion ... From these
watercolors come to life her beautiful cross stitch patterns , well known and appreciated
all over the world .... If you want to reach out and touch the spell produced by an high
quality of cross stitch, you just have to try and embroider one of these wonders .... You
will find that the true cross stitch can give enormous satisfaction and exquisite
masterpieces painted on the tip of a needle...
Since I was very young, about 6 years old
my favourite past time was ( and is also now) drawing…I remember my mother tell me
that I always was lieing on the floor , with a lot of white paper sheets and hundred of
coloured pencils drawing flower, animals but first of all little women, princess and
fairy.... probably I’m the latest of romantic woman, I really believe in the angels,
in fairies and in all the things that we can’t see but we can feel like the sun on
the skin and the scent of spring incoming....
When I
grow up I attend classic school and than I star work in a company that was a supplier for
drilled mass lam what I desire to do was completely different from reality, but I had need
a job and I stay in that company for 12 year, as a commercial and graphics manager ...In
that period I’ve made some stages to become a web designer and a graphics designer
... and also I spent 3 months in U.K. , London, to learn a little bit of English and the
woman where I lived was a crazy stitcher.... I simply fall in love with cross stitch,
because in Italy the cross stitch was quiete bit unknown hobby and craft and when I come
back in Italy I start to collect all the best designs I could find around the world and
start stitch a lot of picture ...,( I can't stop drawing and stitching my and also
original charts from other designer... ), since one night I made a strange dream, I was
drawing a little fairy and after that I was stitchin it..…..That was the beginning of
all….
My
husband ( I married in 1994) always pushed me in this way, he was very proud of my designs
and he was sure that one day I could become a very good cross stitch designer….
From
that period I start to create cross stitch designs… and then I created and published
in internet in the 1994 my first homepage, and it become a trade mark in the 1997 with the
name and logo Passione Ricamo® …..
I forgot
to tell about my story that my first supporter and fan is my son Giulio! When I make a
design, he always tell me if I must make some changing or if the design is o.k. .... And
all the picture I've stitched are of my son.... But also my husband has his personal
favourites designs... I can't touch the "Romantic stitcher” , because it is only
for him like the “Old red Sampler”, meanwhile Giulio is simply devoted to the
Moon fairy spirit, she is his favourite, and also of Giulio are the others fairies.....
And for
me? What ? They always tell me that I must only design and stitch for them....I would like
also to tell you simply that I am "Passione Ricamo" !!! Passione Ricamo is my
registered trade mark and also a virtual shop, where I have putted the power of my dreams
and the crazy love for cross stitch of a simply woman like you ..
I 've
made personally all the designs in my gallery and personally I look at the print and
package processing of all my chart packs with devote care, one by one, thinking of all the
lovely ladies that will buy and use them......
Passione
Ricamo® is a Trade mark, but also a beauty Show Room in the real world …. Like in
the best story tales, when the dreams come true, my husband and I we be able to create the
Atelier of Passione Ricamo … The atelier is in Voghera, a little city 80 km far from
Milan, in that piece of land that the italian call “the Oltrepo’ pavese”
well know for the finest wines and for the sweet hills of this land… a little Tuscany
in the north of Italy…. Voghera city was an antique Roman village “Vicus”
in latin, and the houses in the centre of the city are very antique… in one of this
antique Italian house of the year 700, we open the Passione Ricamo’s atelier : the
ceiling is antique and made in full brick, a classic italian style, and the floor is made
in terracotta tiles.....a little piece of ancien beauty…. ...And in this lovely
place, stitchers can take a rest and enjoy themself looking at the Passione Ricamo
Pictures hangs on the wall, at all the charts packs and have a cup of italian coffee with
me..
Voghera,
April 2007
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