Re: [lace] Fashion History books

[Maria Greil]

Hello,
This is just an email giving some additional information on Fashion History
books.
Sorry for the delay answering your request but health problems do not allow
me to do things as fast as I would like.
Yes, very few books make a good reference to lace, but there are some
devoted only to that which I am not going to mention. But going through my
books in English about this subject: Fashion history, besides the ones
already mentioned I found a couple that may interest you:

- Understanding Fashion History by Valerie Cumming
- Survey of Historic Costume by Phyllis Tortora and Keith Eubank

and for American clothing:
- What Clothes reveal, the language of clothing in colonial and federal
America by Linda Baumgarten.

Then I find very useful the book by Janet Arnold:
- A Handbook of Costume.

Going a bit further into the fashion history I would also suggest:

- Fashion in the Middle Ages by Margaret Scott
- Tudor Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris
- Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII by Maria Hayward
- The Art of Dress, Fashion in England and France 1750-1820 by Aileen
Ribeiro
- Historican Fashion in Detail, the 17th & 18th centuries by Avril Hart and
Susan North
- English Women's Clothing in the 19th century by Willett Cunnington
- Victorian Costume for Ladies 1860-1900 by Linda Setnik
- Edwardian Fashion by Daniel Milford-Cottam

I find extraordinary helpful the 4 booklets by Janet Arnold, *Patterns of
Fashion*, specially the last one (4) with additional material by Jenny
Tiramani and Santina M. Levey. This one has a portion that deals with lace.

As I can see many of the arachne-members come from English speaking
countries, I only picked up those publications written in English and some
of them making special reference to English Fashion. I have some more but I
think these are enough for the moment. If you happen to need further info
about a precise age just let me know and I will try to help you.

Regards from a wet and windy Spain
Maria Greil
a German lace maker living in Madrid



2018-03-06 23:06 GMT+01:00 DevonThein :

> Lorelei’s query about fashion history books is a good question. The
problem
> encountered by the lace historian is to try to figure out what all these
> pieces of lace in museum collections started out trying to be. It is very
> vexing, and I wish I understood the topic better.
> I have found the books by Aileen Ribeiro to be very helpful.
>
> The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820
> Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England
> Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789
>
> A problem with a lot of books is that they cover such a long period that
> they
> don’t spend much time on any particular era, and thus any time spent on
> lace
> is infinitesimal. That said, I find on my shelf:
> Four Hundred Years of Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum,
> The Visual History of Costume, Ribeiro & Coming,
> Accessories of Dress, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Lester & Oerke
> The Art of Dress, Clothes and Society, 1500-1914, Jane Ashelford
> Victorian and Edwardian Fashion, A photographic survey, Alison Gernstein
>
> This last book is a Dover book that I picked up at Craftsman Farm in
> Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, the workshop of Gustav Stickley, a designer for
> the
> Arts and Crafts movement. This book has the merit that pictures don’t
lie.
> Any book that is actually written about fashion quite likely leaves out the
> lace as unimportant. But photographs of the late 19th and early 20th
> century
> can show lace on them. It is mostly these strange shaped accessories that
> one
> does find in museum collections, and antique shows, sometimes even
> composed of
> older lace. So, my only fault with this book is that I wish there were more
> photographs and even less writing.
>
> Devon
>
>
>
>
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Re: [lace] Fashion History books

[Jeri Ames]

All will note that I recently began trying to write without using quotation
marks and apostrophes.  This is because my incoming mail from some
correspondents replace these grammar marks with bold question marks.  I think
that maybe my posts are doing this to messages I send.  
 
Devon,  This week I viewed the current Ornament magazine (published in
California) at Barnes and Noble.  It features a nice long article about
Aileen Riberio.  I appreciate her scholarship, also, and have 6 of her books
in my library.  Lace scholars will use a variety of fashion books, though now
it is possible to do a lot of searching via computer.
 
There were about a dozen lace books Lori Howe and I referenced whenever there
were lace identification questions in connection with developing the (now
extinct) Lace Fairy site - 20 years ago.   Following this exercise, I would
select books on high fashion and national costumes of all eras, to see if we
could match laces to their appropriate application on clothing.  We all know
that laces were made for household linens and ecclesiastical use, but mostly
they were collected and worn for personal adornment. 
 
Perhaps I should repeat what has been said on more than one occasion - if you
are considering cutting up a damaged lace that is assembled into an unusual
shape - like collars, dress yokes, sleeves, caps, jabots and cravats - think
twice.  These shapes make it easier to identify the lace and place of origin.
 Those who teach may find them useful examples to pass around the room -
something they might not do with an old lace in perfect condition.
 
 
Yesterday, I wrote the following to Lorelei, but perhaps should have sent it
to all Arachne subscribers.
 
Bloomsbury Press specializes in fashion books.  I learned about Bloomsbury as
a member of the Costume Society of America.  Do you know any members?  Maybe
a search of their site will turn up something.  Also, that gives a suggestion
that you contact someone who is probably a volunteer at a costume collection
in a local museum, which might have the set of books in their research
library.  Sometimes, such libraries are open to scholars without charge.
 
Also, I found some ideas by searching 4-volumes Fashion History.
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
In a message dated 3/6/2018 5:06:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
devonth...@gmail.com writes:
 Lorelei���s query about fashion history books is a good question. The
problem
encountered by the lace historian is to try to figure out what all these
pieces of lace in museum collections started out trying to be. It is very
vexing, and I wish I understood the topic better.
I have found the books by Aileen Ribeiro to be very helpful.

.Any book that is actually written about fashion quite likely leaves out
the
lace as unimportant. But photographs of the late 19th and early 20th century
can show lace on them. It is mostly these strange shaped accessories that one
does find in museum collections, and antique shows, sometimes even composed
of
older laceDevon

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[lace] Fashion History books

[DevonThein]

Lorelei’s query about fashion history books is a good question. The problem
encountered by the lace historian is to try to figure out what all these
pieces of lace in museum collections started out trying to be. It is very
vexing, and I wish I understood the topic better.
I have found the books by Aileen Ribeiro to be very helpful.

The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820
Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England 
Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 

A problem with a lot of books is that they cover such a long period that they
don’t spend much time on any particular era, and thus any time spent on lace
is infinitesimal. That said, I find on my shelf:
Four Hundred Years of Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum,
The Visual History of Costume, Ribeiro & Coming,
Accessories of Dress, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Lester & Oerke
The Art of Dress, Clothes and Society, 1500-1914, Jane Ashelford
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion, A photographic survey, Alison Gernstein

This last book is a Dover book that I picked up at Craftsman Farm in
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, the workshop of Gustav Stickley, a designer for the
Arts and Crafts movement. This book has the merit that pictures don’t lie.
Any book that is actually written about fashion quite likely leaves out the
lace as unimportant. But photographs of the late 19th and early 20th century
can show lace on them. It is mostly these strange shaped accessories that one
does find in museum collections, and antique shows, sometimes even composed of
older lace. So, my only fault with this book is that I wish there were more
photographs and even less writing.

Devon




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