On Jan 10, 2007, at 4:30, Louise Bailey wrote:
Hi Maria,
The authoritative work is "Lace a history " by Santina Levey, textile
curator at the V&A museum in the UK. It is a very hefty (large, heavy,
thorough) and expensive book, but if you can get it through
interlibrary loan it would be worth it.
"Lace an identification guide" by Heather Toomer, pub 1989 by
Batsford, 0713457015 is also useful.
I'd like to add another one, much less known and, perhaps, less
authoritative than the Levey book, but still very good:
Anne Kraatz, "Lace; History and Fashion"; Rizzoli International
Publications, NY, 1989; ISBN 0-8478-1029-1. Large format, 192pps; 180
illustrations, 92 in colour.
I've always thought of it as "poor man's Levey", because, at the time,
I could not afford Levey :) And there's some dispute as to Kraatz's
scholarship (but less than there is about Mrs Bury-Palliser's<g>).
Still, Kraatz's credentials are (from the cover blurb):
Anne Kraatz has written and lectured widely on lace in Europe and the
United States --including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and
the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, and was for four years a
Consultant for lace for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She has
organized four major lace exhibitions, most recently at the
Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin.
So she should be a respectable enough source for an academic paper :)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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