Taranta Peligna’s Woven Story

Many people have slept under a taranta whilst in Abruzzo and others under these brightly patterned blankets at their grandparents, who took them with them upon emigrating so many moons ago. Their stunning patterns and colours brought familiar warmth to so many when far away from home, generation after generation.

Today some high-end international luxury boutique hotels and department stores provide these woolly slices of Abruzzo history, sadly most that sleep under them unaware that they are in fact named after a little town in Chieti called Taranta Peligna, set deep in the Majella Mountains...

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