Hello Leonard Thank you so much for another descriptive review of this exhibit. I suspect there aren't enough superlatives to do justice to it - wonderful, really, the multilayering, such as:
Not unique, but here the portrait of Charlotte, Queen to King George III, of 1771, in which she wears a silk gown covered in French needle lace, backs a silk gown especially made for the exhibition to a pattern reconstructed by Janet Arnold, with a virtually full suit of exquisite needle lace of the period attached to it. That is not all – the V&A have lent the Grinling Gibbons gros point cravat carved in wood, and the curators have enlisted the services of an Italian expert to recreate the cravat, using fine linen prepared with an authentic starch no longer available in the UK, and attached a superb gros point cravat end to it, so you
can see how it would have been tied. > I would stand there transfixed until led away. wow. For other amrchair travellers, at the digital archive there are documents by M. Jourdain, Parts I - IV "Lace Collection of Mr. Arthur Blackborne" and also by M. Jourdain, "Lace As Worn in England until the Acession of James I" Interesting reading (though not as much fun as the exhibit, to be sure...) Go here to hunt for them http://www.handweaving.net/DAHome.aspx or look on Disc 2 of the CDs. Thank you again Leonard and Dianne for sharing with us. Bev in Sooke BC (on warm, wet Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
