Dawn wrote:
Robin Netherton wrote:
So, I don't need a specific date for the technique, just a ballpark
half-century or quarter-century in which something visibly
recognizable as
"lace" became commonly used as clothing decoration. I know I see
recognizable lace all over Elizabethan art, and I don't see it in 14th
century art. But I don't have a sense for when exactly it starts cropping
up as a typical feature in depictions of clothing.
The documentation I have (an SCA handout with pictures) shows drawn and
cutwork "lace" as early as the 1400's and thread-and-bobbin lace
mentioned in 1493, and a pattern book published in 1524. I would say
"late 15th century" is a safe guess.
I should clarify my last statement, as late 15th century being a date
for the earliest kinds of work we'd recognize today, and give "early
16th century" as a better date for common useage (at least among
european nobility).
Dawn
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