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Among the so many gifts that our Mediterranean offers us, it is you of it one, whose mystery can only be disclosed by the hands of skilled artisans: the Fin nobilis, the greatest shell of the whole Mediterranean, whose length can almost reach one meter.
Once very diffused, it is currently a protected kind that installs him along the coastal regions of Sardinia, and particularly in the northern coasts and near the gulf in Taranto.

This bivalve mollusc settles with his/her pointed extremity in the seabed, through of the filaments of horny nature that harden him to the contact of the water and, as a sort of they still avoid to make him/it transport from the sea tides. Well really from these long filaments, secreted by the denominated gland bissogena, a raw textile fiber it is gotten, from which the is drawn I encore sea. The term I encore, derived by the late Latin byssus and from the Greek bussos, in turn of Phoenician origin, it subsequently came to point out a particularly elegant fabric and appreciated, thanks to his/her ductility that allows to get a soft cloth, from the shiny and bright aspect very similar to the silk. It is not to omit the gilded coloration, that golden reflex that assumes according to the incidence of the light and that he/she confers her an unique dignity. Another important peculiarity of this product is the exceptional coibenza or rather the ability to hold back the heat. Characteristics that were takings in examination at a doctor cagliaritano of the XIX century, Joseph Lower part Arnoux, when he/she wanted to use her/it for massages that him same it practised, holding in this way that you/they would have been more profitable. In reality he absolutely lavished him in praiseworthy way, devoting all of his/her energies in the hope to develop a florid industry of the I encore.

But alas all of its numerous attempts must be frustrated, despite the gotten recognitions, its dream was destined to melt: "I have done how much I have been able for succeeding in attracting the attention on the so many poor men fishermen that lie in the bleakest poverty, I have sacrificed time and money, and if after this I won't get the desired result, satisfaction will remain me to pleasantly have employed the time, leaving that others profit of my teachings and that I/you/he/she succeed in embodying anything that comes to make to pronounce the name Italy more and more." He doesn't treat therefore of a simple shell, but of the craftsman of the so-called one "sea silk", so defined since the antiquity, that succeeded in feeding a flourishing industry of fabrics near the Phoenician ones, the Egyptians, the Caldeis and the Hebrews.

For a long time you/he/she has been used for creating dresses of great merit exclusively destined to principles and sovereigns or to the great priests: "With violet purple and red purple, with scarlet and I encore it made the liturgical dresses to officiate in the sanctuary. They made the sacred dresses of Aronne, as the Lord had ordered to Mosè." This way you/he/she is quoted in the ancient Will, but it is found also mentioned in the Gospel, actually to arrive in nearer epochs to ours where you Pasture, alluding to the delicacy of the subject and the skill of the workmanship so it was expressed: "Or gold hand, whose slim fingers lead the slim threads to escir flowers from the white I encore, and yes, that the in bloom one seems that I/you/he/she smell."

Nowadays the tenacity and the obstinacy to hold long live and to preserve a tall tradition, what that was of the I encore, you/he/she can be tracked down in the determination of Chiara Vigo in force, whose hands obstinately spin the fragile fibers of the silk of the sea. And' her the only weaver of I encore to the world, it personally withdraws the drivel of the fin in apnea and it is the only one that moulds this subject with that skill that learned from his/her grandmother and whose secrets will come from her transmitted of generation in generation.

From the I encore some material advantage you/he/she cannot be drawn, you/he/she cannot be gained, so it establishes the oath of the sea and so Chiara has declared his/her fidelity to the sea, to the water, to the earth and the art. The cloth of I encore you/he/she can be alone given because as the Zietta says the patrimony of all you/he/she cannot have an economic value and you/he/she cannot vulgarly be sold accordingly in short monetizzato. Chiara has been beating for years to have a recognition from the Region Sardinia that allows her to be able to transmit his/her partrimonio of knowledges through a real school that will have only students spiritually predisposed to learn the art. By now we are almost at the end because Zietta alas you/he/she has declared that if enter May the Region it won't open her a small opening, he/she will close the leaves and that that it is the fabric of I Encore it will disappear: part of ours... of My patrimony will disappear completely. If we try to perhaps give together her everybody a hand instead, as a sort of Pigmalione, the same Chiara Vigo in force one day will see to take life one of its creations through that soul that you/he/she has known how to infuse you.

The laboratory of Chiara Vigo in force is found to Sant'Antioco, in the province of Cagliari, and it is worth really the punishment to do visits her and to make two chiaccheres with her.