: Re: [lace] Re:
Vermeer's Lacemaker on Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum
For her hope
chest? (or that period equivalent). Narrow lace inserts
were used to join
pieces of cotton fabric for bed sheets, and modest
trim was made for
clothing.
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Dear Arachnes,
I managed to get into Cambridge this weekend, and visited the Vermeer
exhibition. I'm not a great visitor of Art museums, but I thought this was
fantastic, the Dutch masters were certainly masters. Reproductions don't give
you any sense of the quality and finish on these
Laurie Waters wrote:
I strongly disagree with the characterization of the model - this was
probably Vermeer's daughter, and the family lived under the patronage of the
middle class. His few buyers often dug him out of deep debt. In fact he
probably had only one real patron, Pieter Van
For her hope chest? (or that period equivalent). Narrow lace inserts
were used to join pieces of cotton fabric for bed sheets, and modest
trim was made for clothing.
On 10/17/11, David Leader lacema...@q7design.demon.co.uk wrote:
Here is a more pertinent question, then, for those who know about
oops I meant linen fabric, but cotton maybe.
On 10/17/11, David Leader lacema...@q7design.demon.co.uk wrote:
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Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west
coast of Canada
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It is certainly the strength of a timeless work like the Lacemaker that one
can look at it from many views. If I have managed to find some 'Arts and
Crafts' in the Art, well, that's a point never investigated before, and I'm
proud of the contribution. Plus it is a valuable record of the
