Museo dell'Ombrello e del Parasole
Via Golf Panorama,3 28836
Gignese (VB)
Tel.
+39 0323 89622
Tel. +39 0323 208064 (direct)
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The history of the first umbrella is a story about poverty. The
economy of Vergante even at the end of ' 700 forced emigration
and looking for a job in the plains of Lombardy and Piedmont. In
Turin, French Street came the discovery of a new possibility:
the repair and construction of umbrellas. The apprentice, a boy
of seven, eight years, new year's day, on the square in
Carpugnino, was entrusted by their parents to the itinerant
artisans, hoping they would learn a trade. "At the lungon in
about 14 prumm, to the Casér without an truà bergnin". "The
first of the year to Carpugnino, try master, without a penny,"
reads the inscription placed in the square in Carpugnino. Many
made their fortune and many lived a life of separation from
family, at night in barns, cold and hunger. |
The landlord provided throughout
the apprentice that shouting "Ombrele! ... Ombrelé!
"learnt to repair and construct an umbrella. To return
home at Christmas, as compensation, if the guy was
willing and had proven adept, a pair of shoes and a silk
umbrella glory and then again around The tarusc, common
parlance by its homogeneity from the category, allowing
quick communication and secret among vendors in front of
the naive user could exchange news and comment in the
certainty of not being understood. The jargon shows the
ductility of the umbrella in the enrich dialect with
sounds coming from the German, French, Spanish, but most
importantly, the wit of men who often could boast only
one year of school. For example, the lawyer is "denciòn"
and the Cook is "brusapignat". In both terms there is
mistrust for professions that are foreign to their
mentality felt and, in the case of the advocate, even
hostile.
The lawyer has long teeth in the wretched
poor of substances that occur to him and the Cook, in
the best of cases, burn the Cookware. After all, what
good is a chef who eats a piece of bread and cheese, if
there is? Some, however, made fortune in Milan, Turin,
Venice, Locarno, Rome, Naples, Bari, New York, San
Francisco, Sydney. Igino Ambrosini recalls ben 180
ombrellaie dynasties originating in Gignese and
surrounding areas but, to tell the truth, you must also
mention those of Cusio and Como Lake. it would be
ungenerous to name just a few of the characters who have
spread the ombrellaia art in the world: suffice it to
say that the craft has become an industry, unfortunately
threatened by cheap production of Eastern countries, but
the most elegant, better finished, the most fashionable
among the umbrellas are still and always Italian
umbrellas. |
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