This show explores European lace which, like all lace, is a textile that involves no weaving and has openwork structure. In the galleries and its exemplary catalog, “Threads of Power” examines ...

Lace is paradoxical: a textile characterized by its open spaces. It performs no strictly utilitarian function; it neither cloaks the body nor warms it. However, it remained for centuries a highly ...

In 1907 Mrs. James W. Pinchot proposed to assemble a collection of arts and crafts for the Smithsonian Institution. To start this endeavor, Mrs. Pinchot and her collector friends loaned or donated ...

In fashion as well as products for the home, lace — once seen as the fustiest of fabrics — is suddenly looking fresh. A look from Diotima’s fall 2024 collection.Credit...Deirdre Lewis ...

The words lace and to lace have been used for the thin bands made from textile strands twisted together. These laces tied together the bodices of doublets and dresses; doublets and hose (stockings ...