Of course, there is the large number of paintings on Lori Howe's lace fairy
site of lacemakers, some of whom are 17th century. This site is
www.lacefairy.com, click on "lacemaking", go to the column on the right hand side,
down at
the bottom under "graphics" and right under that click on "Lacem
As I am over 3 days behind on my emails this may have been covered - look for
paintings by Peter de Hooch, Vermeer and Netscher
As to Caspar Netscher's painting there is a fantastic version of it on line at the
Wallace Collections website:
http://www.wallacecollection.org/c/w_a/p_w_d/d_f/p/p237
The heroine starts out as a down-trodden young woman who
turns to a benevolent man who owns a lace shop. She has
refined skills as a needle lacemaker and he hires her. From
this beginning, she eventually marries extremely well, buys
the lace shop, and invents bobbin lace. Seems a very
unlikely s
Hello Lacefriends,
The art-world didn't know much of the private life of Vermeer that's
why I didn't like this book. In this book he is shown as a fanatic
which didn't care of other peoples feeling. And there is not much in
about life in the Netherlands of 17.cent.
If there is somebody who is se
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> I haven't read it, but I think
I haven't read it, but I think the novel by Jean Montupet called the
Lacemaker is one of the few to actually deal with the lives of lacemakers. However, I
believe they are French Needlelacers of the 18th century.
Since the person asked for a "depiction" does she mean a book or a picture?
At the
A lady from Australia emailed us asking for information on:
The Depiction of Lace-makers in 17th century Holland
As I didn't know of any sources - except maybe the book "Girl With A Pearl
Earring" - I was wondering if any people here might be able to help her.
Thank you
Nathalie
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