Venice based artist Giulia Filippi has come up with the idea of ​​a net of snowflakes made by knotting, made in collaboration with schoolchildren from Rauma. Lumihiutaleverkko – piirroksesta pitsiksi, yhteisön yhdistävä lanka -art piece was made by Emelia ry's children's knitting club, the visual arts group of the 8th grades of the Raumanmeri school and the 2B class of the Normaalikoulu.

The different forms of snow have interested Filippi for a long time. Snowflakes can be either single flakes or large clusters of snow crystals that change shape and no two are alike. In this community art project, the artist wanted to combine lace and snowflakes. The idea was to create both a concrete and a figurative network, which connects students from different parts of the city, craft tradition and contemporary art.

The schoolchildren got to know lace making as a modernized version, because they used a simplification of the self-designed and drawn snowflake pattern, thick woolen thread and nails instead of traditional lace models, thin linen thread and button needles. The experienced lace makers and the artist guided the children in making of the artwork

Giulia Filippi has gotten to know lacemaking on the island of Burano, near her hometown, which is famous for its lace. Burano lace and its technique are very different from Rauma lace, so when Filippi arrived in Rauma, she took part in a knotting course at the civic college to learn a different technique.