On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2024, in the year of Pesaro Capital of Culture 2024, on September 28 at 4:30 pm, an exhibition will be inaugurated at the headquarters of the State Archives (Via della Neviera, 44), entitled PESARESI SILK ROADS. SPINNING FACTORIES IN PESARO BETWEEN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY, curated by Cristina Ravara Montebelli and Sara Cambrini, which uses the iconographic documentation of the Gabriele Stroppa Nobili Archive.
The exhibition is the result of research on the spinning mills of Pesaro, recently published by Cristina Ravara Montebelli (professional archaeologist and silk historian) in the series “Quaderni pesaresi” (Melchiorri 1934) entitled “Pesaro silk roads. Guide to the spinning mills of Pesaro” and conducted on the documents preserved at the State Archives of Pesaro.
The topic never discussed in Pesaro until now, focuses on the importance of the numerous silk mills in the nineteenth-century business context, locating them in the streets of the city center and reconstructing the biography of the spinners and the role of the women who worked there.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Municipality of Pesaro and under the aegis of the European Aracne project, is not only documentary, because it makes use of the collaboration of the Ferruccio Mengaroni Art School, which will lend some fabrics, clothes and tools from the Fabrics Section of the TAME Museums, recently inaugurated inside.
Artifacts and objects (scarves, fans, books and art objects) will also be exhibited that will dialogue with the documents of the Archive to tell the story of the silk mills of Pesaro, lent by city institutions such as the Diocesan Historical Archive of Pesaro and the Oliveriana Library and by private collectors: Associazione Amici del Foulard, Florence; Valconca Naturalistic Studies Center, San Giovanni in Marignano; Luisa Maione Collection, Pesaro; Maria Rita Golfieri Palloni Collection, Rimini; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Ceramics.
