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This is really nice work……..                                                                                via Art LOVER

THAT’S how you make lace??

And THIS is why lace was a worn primarily by royalty and aristocracy for so many centuries..  It was expensive and time-consuming to produce.  Wearing it, and wearing LOTS of it was a blatant show of wealth and excessive consumption.  

Mechanically-produced lace wasn’t really a thing until well into the 20th century, but there remains a wide gap between the quality of  mass-produced and hand crafted

In general textile arts are highly underated considering the amount of skill and time needed to execute pretty much anything.

 That last comment.

Generally if it’s considered a woman’s craft/profession, it’s undervalued. But while I watch the video, I think it’s magic.

Ipswich (Boston area; a town not too far from where I live) back in the 1700s had 600 (!!) lacemakers that offered an alternative to the very expensive laces from Europe. 

For extra fun, most of the surviving Ipswich lace I’ve seen online is black (including the one Martha Washington wore). And some early laces are called Bone Lace, because the lace bobbins were made of …bones.