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Description: Scroll to the bottom of the page to find lace histories from 1500-1900, plus a gallery of laceworks.
Welcome To The Lace maker's Cottage " is the apt title of a beautiful book about the world's great laces by Janine Montupet and Ghislaine Schoeller. For hundreds of years lace was the premier fashion accessory, the single most prestigious luxury a person could own. Required for Court Wear, lace was so necessary to advancement, place at court, and recognition as a person of taste and culture, that aristocrats and nobility were known to mortgage or sell estates to obtain it. This elegant whisper of fabric characterized by its design of ornamental stitches and open spaces - fragile, perishable and phenomenally labor intensive - was very costly.
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