#lace patterns

[oddestishottest]

07/16/25

[internationalemeteorologie]

NeSpoon

Poland. 2018 Italy. 2019 France. 2022 USA. 2022 Scotland. 2023

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Decorative Sunday

Last week, we brought you black and white images of 16th century to the early 19th century European decorative lace work from La dentelle ancienne, style et technique by the German lace scholar and collector Alfred von Henneberg, with a foreword by the German art historian Wilhelm Pinder, and published in Paris by the decorative arts publisher A. Calavas for the Librairie des Arts Décoratifs in 1931. This week we present all the color plates from this volume demonstrating the various standard patterns used to make lace designs.

Click on the images to see the captions.  The patterns shown here are called “bud,” “shell,” and “toilé.” The patterns are connected to each other with thread designs known as “brides,” which may be simple or extended. Other terms in the captions are fond de neige, a pattern found in Binche lace, a type of bobbin lace that originated in the town of Binche, Belgium, and “pillow-work,” lacework that is created using the surface of a pillow as its ground.

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Lace pattern photographs from A renascence of the Irish art of lace-making. Illustrated by photographic reproductions of Irish laces, made from new and specially designed patterns. 1888. Design by Miss Z. A. Inman, of Halstead, Essex. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/1723373

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Lungs, 2020. Flame-worked borosilicate glass.

Anatomy and History Collide in Borosilicate Glass Sculptures by Kit Paulson

In a lovely clash of anatomy and antiquity, artist Kit Paulson (previously) forms impossibly fragile objects entirely from glass. By referencing historical artworks through lace patterns, or traversing the structures of blood veins and bones found in the human body, she externalizes the internal and reveals hidden visceral structures all around us. She pushes the idea further still by creating wearable sculptures like masks and gloves.

Paulson works primarily with slender tubes of borosilicate glass heated with a torch through a method called flameworking.

All photos © Kit Paulson

[vintageneedlework]

Broomstick Lace

Year: 1974

[mymodernmet]

Street Artist Paints Delicate, Traditional Lace Patterns on Urban Buildings Around the World

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

These 15th- and 16th-century lace patterns are from the early 20th-century publication La Dentelle, transformations progressives XVe et XVIe siècles published in Paris by Édouard Rouveyre (1849-1930), father of the noted French caricaturist André Rouveyre. La Dentelle is part of the decorative design series Comment discerner les styles enseigné par l'image and includes 500 black and white photographic examples. Our copy was originally part of the  Albert F. Gallun Library of the Layton School of Art, the predecessor institution of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

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