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The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases


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As far back as the 16th century, monks and peasants wandered the secluded Puster Valley fortressed by the icy mountains of the Tyrolean Alps in search of the glistening, silky homes of spiders and caterpillars. Gently plying away the gossamer material with fingertips or a small knife, they would take the cobwebs and transform them into a delicate canvas. The layers of silk became the bases for portraits of saints and sprawling landscapes.

Cobweb painting—a unique peasant craftsmanship native to the Tyrolean Alps in Western Austria and Northern Italy—has become a forgotten artform with fewer than 100 known paintings today.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-art-of-painting-on-cobweb-canvases

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It would never, ever occur to me to paint on cobwebs, spider webs or caterpillar threads.

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