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I secoli d'oro del merletto italiano.

Arnaldo Caprai Editore

Italian and English Text.
Foligno, 2003; clothbound, pp. 146, b/w and col. ill., 112 col. plates, cm 30x30.

Subject: Textiles (Tapestries, Carpets, Embroyderies)

Period: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance

Places: Italy

Languages:  english, italian text   english, italian text  

Weight: 1.16 kg


Sheer and impalpable or thick and three.dimensional, it is the same lace that still continue to offer deep emotions, maybe because, as Coco Chanel said, in 1939: 'Contrarily to many other precious objects that lost most part of their luxuriance with the industrial revolution, lace, on the other hand, adjusting itself to the eonomic and industrial demands of our time, preserved its peculiar haracteristics of precious elegance, lightness and luxury..'

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