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This is really nice work……..                                                                                via Art LOVER

THAT’S how you make lace??

And THIS is why lace was a worn primarily by royalty and aristocracy for so many centuries..  It was expensive and time-consuming to produce.  Wearing it, and wearing LOTS of it was a blatant show of wealth and excessive consumption.  

Mechanically-produced lace wasn’t really a thing until well into the 20th century, but there remains a wide gap between the quality of  mass-produced and hand crafted

In general textile arts are highly underated considering the amount of skill and time needed to execute pretty much anything.

Amazing.

In England during the 1500s, most lace was imported from the Netherlands where it was made by young women. It was such a status marker that it was one of the materials particularly noted in Queen Elizabeth’s sumptuary laws—no one who was not of noble status was permitted to wear it, because the aristocracy didn’t want the middle class to dress like the nobility.