The girl soon gets the idea to sew a quilt and begins
collecting scraps of fabric in unusual ways, from her father's shirt, torn from a river crossing, to a tablecloth during an abandoned wagon.
Sidival Fila first
collects all kinds
of fabrics in his Roman workshop, be they heavy sheets, tablecloths or liturgical vestments, damask silks or simple
scraps of quality
fabrics, from the 17th century to the present day.