Inspiration #19 - Lovely Lace

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How lovely and intricate and delicate and truly feminine. Lace is one of those beautiful things, that people spend hours, days, weeks, months, etc working with love on. To those of you who make it, thank your for your countless hours of dedication and hard work! It is well worth it. Lace is one of those pretty details that can be cute, pretty, sexy, sensual, it has so many facets. Lace is one of those things we replicate from nature, the way light filters through trees and plants, the way we peek up at the sky through the leaves of trees. The way it simulates the webs of spiders. Apparently, I am not the only one to think so.

"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin." ~ Coco Chanel

And just for giggles, while I was surfing the web for things relating to lace. I came across this pair of quotes:


""It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes" ~ Mary Wilson Litle
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"Yes, but have you any idea how hard it is to get those holes to stick together!"~ A response from an English costumer.

Silly, I know, but I thought adding something a little light and airy would be fitting for this subject!