Istrice Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua

Barbara Frua De Angeli is a renowned Milanese interior decorator and famed hand-woven wool designer, based in Milan, Italy. Her works pay homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a family friend. For the “Milan Design Week”, Barbara had created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery, entitled, Par Terre. These flat-woven rugs were hand-woven in hand-spun, precious Cashmere wool, by means of the chain stitch technique, a type of embroidery that is characteristic of Indian textiles, since the Mughal period.