On a Friday night, members of the Brooklyn Lace Guild gather at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, rhythmically knocking together 3D-printed and traditional wooden bobbins. The crafters’ hands move ...

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 ...

Linen lace thread is unpretentious: $14.98 for 800 feet; 837 denari for a pound; It is reasonably strong, practical and fair at steeping-in color. It is useful in bookbinding, embroidery — and, of ...

Have you ever pondered the ruff? That snowy circular collar made of starched cambric, fluted and trimmed with lace? During the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras ruffs appeared endlessly in painted ...