The museum is located near the port of Isola Maggiore and is housed in the fourteenth-century building called “Casa del Capitano del Popolo” or “of the ancient clock”.

It preserves artifacts made in Irish stitch by the women of the island from the early twentieth century to the end of the century, made with almost impalpable cotton thread and very fine crochet. The introduction of this type of refined processing is due to the Marquise Elena Guglielmi, who also created, in 1904, a school-laboratory where this technique was taught to the daughters and wives of the island’s fishermen, already experts in the work of weaving fishing nets, to ensure them some economic independence.
The main applications involved tablecloths, sheets, pillowcases, collars, handkerchiefs, gloves, but also entire dresses, often with embossed floral and clover motifs.