Some of the earliest written references to buratto embroidery are found in a pattern book called Il Burato, Libro de Recami ('Buratto, a Book of Embroidery'), which was published by Alessandro Paganino in 1518 (reprinted in 1527 and 1538). Another buratto pattern book was published by Matio (Matteo) Pagano in Venice, in 1559. Examples of seventeenth century buratto work were often embroidered with coloured silks. It was popular in the nineteenth century to copy earlier examples and it can be difficult to distinguish older from the newer versions.
See also a sixteenth century stroke of buratto embroidery from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Source: EARNSHAW, Pat (1984). A Dictionary of Lace, Aylesbury: Shire Publications, p. 26.
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