You mentioned looking at a picture by Botticelli and noticing the braid on her garments. In a talk I heard by Lenka Suchanek she showed a couple of slides of his works. One was from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and was titled Madonna. The other was from the National Gallery, London. Both showed garments with apparently metallic woven braids on them. Lenka suggested that these were the forerunners of metallic laces and it was these that were the beginnings of Bobbin lace. Both of the paintings dated from 1485.
Jean in Cleveland U.K.
On 25 Sep 2004, at 21:49, Bev Walker wrote:
Yesterday, at an art group, I was staring at a poster reproduction of a
Botticelli, called 'Annunciation' - the Mary figure was an elegantly
robed young woman c. 1490. What fascinated me was the trim on her cape -
it was yellow (gold?), and I would have said the trim was 'brocade
woven' except the intersticial areas of the trim were transparent -
looking distinctly lace-like, if quite geometric. I wondered how it was
made - because the painter/technicians had taken pains to be quite
accurate with the other features of the painting (such as transparent
veils) one could hope that they rendered the trim fairly accurately. I
need to investigate further (alas no sign of 'tape' on the garments though).
bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com
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