32 minutes agoBBC: Mountain girls from Albania who produce interiors for Europe
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Few people pay attention to where their clothes come from, and so was Elizabeth Gowing, to a visit she had to a women's domestic clothing factory in Albania. The bras on a table and some pieces of silk. “A I am in a brothel or [...]
The bras on a table and some pieces of silk. “A I am in a brothel or bedroom of a young man”, she asked, writes the BBC, broadcasts the KsP.
When I came to Albania, I was warned that I could end up in an underground easy, but that's not what I expected. It's an aired and enlightened industrial space where 40 workers aim at combining intimate details that make up the perfect”, Gowing tells the BBC.
A table is filled with bra flowers. A sack in the vicinity has pink roses to sew like ornaments on. One woman is checking the flexibility woven in a way that in any other context may be considered highly inappropriate for clothing.
It is one of 3,000 workers in the textile industry in northern Albania.
Although it imposes its church and Illyrian culture, a little Roman, then Venetian, Shkodra has a remarkable literary past. But despite its high cultural heritage and its reputation for intellectuality on the city's tree boulevards, it is now at the top of the production of domestic clothing”, the BBC writes.
Shkodra has a long tradition of devout Catholicism, and this cultural connection with Italy strengthens relations with Albania's leading consumer.
Mirela, the owner of the factory she is visiting, speaks fluent Italian.
“Nine-five percent of them are women”, she says, speaking of her employees, and adds with a smile: “People cannot see themselves doing this kind of work”.
More than half of Albania's businesses are owned by women like this.
