While visiting in Germany last year, I had the very good fortune of
being able to buy a book entitled, "Lace: Wealth for the Rich, Blessing
for the Poor". It is a documentation of a project funded by the
Leonardo da Vinci foundation, and involved groups from six European
countries. Each group chose a portrait to represent the lace of their
country, and then set about reconstructing the lace, as well as the
costume itself! There is a bit of history presented for each country,
as well as patterns for the lace and the costume. It is a remarkable
book, and I treasure it. It was produced in an extremely small edition
(only 70 copies, I believe), and is no longer available unless a new
printing has been done.
The pictures of the gowns in the Brioude exhibit are (mostly) the
costumes made for this project. They were each designed and made by a
different group of people. The countries represented are Belgium,
Germany, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, and Spain.
Clay
On 5/8/2011 5:35 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote:
Sof:
Thank you for posting the link to the dress designer's website. She does very
interesting work, very unusual.
Lorelei
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