Creattiva Bergamo

In september I packed my stuff and two of my sewing machines and went for a vacation in Italy. I rented a little "nest" in Ravenna for 2,5 week and walked and drove a lot around Emilia Romagna but also visited Bergamo for the Bergamo Creattiva a fair that had I think over 300 vendors, not much fabric for clothes but I´ve learned that there is another fair for that called Abilmente. Since my pictures are a lot messed up here I´m just going to write texts explaining  what´s in them

There was a lot of this, you crochet bags from synthetic cord and use readymade bottoms and in this case flap from synthetic leather. I don´t really care a lot for this look but it gives me a lot of options to buy things for the bags I sew

Here are a lot of straps for bags to chose from

This is a view from the room I rented outside Bergamo, I even found a small merceria there an a remnant of black Chanel wool

A lot of these kind of homedec and a lot of patchwork too

The lines where fast when I arrived early, they where not when I was to have lunch....

There was a Contest kind of like Project Runway during the Fiera

More of the bagmaking stuff

Here are ready made bottoms that you should start your crochet from

Here are something to start you of crocheing a backpack

Part of the Fiera was dedicated to woodwork and I just loved this chair, floor and bench!!!!!

These are clousures and something to add straps to that I bought, the prices are OK the clasp to the right 10 euro, 8 for the biggest one and 4 for the smaller

Fatto a mano Made by Hand just as I saw on Dolce and Gabbana´s men´s Collection on instagram today

I also bought some yarn from the industry, Wish it would have been more of that. The Fiera was fun but next time I would like to look more at fabric so maybe Abilmente is an option