Lace Identification
A Practical Guide
$90.32
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2021
Summary
What is that lace? How old is it? Has it been made by hand or machine? What would it have been used for? These are the types of questions that this practical guide sets out to answer. Lavishly illustrated, it shows you how to identify the sort of lace that you might find hiding away in drawers and cupboards, or buy at a vintage textile fair. It deals predominantly with the hand-made and machine laces of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Topics covered include:
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785008665 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1785008668 |
| Author: | Gilian Dye, Jean Leader |
| Publisher: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 817g |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 215mm x 19mm |
About The Author
Gilian Dye
Gilian Dye has been making and teaching lace since the 1970s. She has been an active member of the British Lace Guild since its early years and was involved in establishing the Guild’s lace collection as a registered museum. She has written books and articles on many aspects of lace, including a series on early lace, her particular interest and area of expertise.
Jean Leader is a maker and teacher of lace, and the author of several books on lacemaking. She has contributed material on lace identification to a guide for textile curators in British museums and has produced a reference to different types of lace in the form of an iPhone app.
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