The Love of Lace - Hardcover

Cynthia Hart; Catherine Calvert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563053004 ISBN 13: 9781563053009

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 1992

Synopsis

Nobles bankrupted themselves in pursuit of it. Young convent girls spent 60 hours just to make a square inch of it. The Victorians revived it, and today it still hasn't lost its romance and allure.

The Love of Lace celebrates this enchanting fabric from its beginnings as crude open cutwork in the 14th century to the height of lace mania-when over a quarter of Europe's workers were employed as lace makers-to laces today and how to use and care for them. Gracing Catherine Calvert's richly informative text are Cynthia Hart's exquisite compositions mixing antique laces with fresh flowers, silver heirlooms, bibelots, a faded photograph.

Fine enough to be drawn through a wedding band or heavily worked for a dining table, lace is the highest expression of the needleworker's art, a poem in thread-and The Love of Lace is universal.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Nobles bankrupted themselves in pursuit of it. Young convent girls labored for sixty hours just to make a square inch of it. The Victorians revived it with a passion, and today we've re-revived it. Whether suggesting innocence or intimacy, romance or refinement, lace has again woven its spell.

From the crude open cutwork of the fourteenth century to the glories of Alencon, Chantilly, Mechlin and Valenciennes, THE LOVE OF LACE celebrates the highest expression of the needleworker's art. Gracing the pages are collages, mixing exquisite antique laces with fresh flowers and silver heirlooms, bibelots and luscious portraits.

Fine enough to be drawn through a wedding band or heavily worked for a dining table, lace is a poem in thread, the fabric of romance. The love of lace is universal.

CYNTHIA HART is a noted designer and co-author of A Victorian Scrapbook; Joy to the World: A Victorian Christmas; Forget-Me-Nots: A Victorian Book of Love; Parlor Cats: A Victorian Celebration; and The Victoriana Calendar.

CATHERINE CALVERT, editor-at-large at Victoria magazine, wrote Having Tea and Cradle and All, published by Clarkson N. Potter.

About the Author:

Cynthia Hart is a renowned designer and artist, and the owner/curator of The Cynthia Hart Collection of Cherished Images. She is the author of Cynthia Hart’s Victoriana Calendar, Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop, The Love of Lace, Parlor Cats, and other books. Her designs have been licensed to fragrance, gift, stationery, and home furnishing companies. Her studio is in New York City.



Catherine Calvert is a staff writer at Victoria magazine. She previously co-authored Having Tea.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1563053004
• ISBN 13: 9781563053009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104