Ricamo & Cucito

This store has an attractive window display of finished needlepoints and cross stitched embroideries.

There are kits, like those from Dimensions and Permin of Copenhagen, including hard-to-find designs.

I started to like and collect these kits when I was making lots of cross stitched designs years ago. They have hundreds of patterns, mostly from the US.

What I really find inspiring, are the displayed embroideries. You get to see how some of the kits are finished. I really like the very fine Boticelli Madonna needlepoint (faces and skin are in petitpoint) and the very large Klimt needlepoint which also uses gold threads, just like Klimt used gold in his paintings.