De la dentelle & des hommes : the lace-makers of Calais. Paul Maurer & Delphine Loez

De la dentelle & des hommes : the lace-makers of Calais.

Author	Paul Maurer & Delphine Loez
Publisher	Paris: Somogy, Ed. d'Art, 2002
Edition	1
Weight	1300 gram
CF
Keywords	Calais, Lace-Lace-makers, Kant, Dentelle
Booknumber	20778
Category's	Travel & Geography (Europe) Art (Applied/Decorative) Art (Tapestries & Textiles)
Square 4to. 28x28 cm, pp. 166, (2). Softcover. Richly illustrated with numerous photographs. Including a glossary and a bibliography. Text in French and English. Today Calais is renowned worldwide as the capital of lace-making, and owes a great deal to the men and women who design and produce this lace day by day. The town's magnificent Leavers machines are the focus for the expert skips of hundreds of hands that work with dexterity and passion to create the finest, most exquisite laces in the world. It took a whole book to do them justice - to lift the veil and offer a glimpse into this astonishingly rich world of designs, talents and techniques. This mosaic of looks and gestures, captured in all its vitality by Paul Maurer, and recreated in detail through the lyrical words of Delphine Loez, reveals the devotion and intelligence lavished on a material that is unique in its textures and contrasts. When pride in work well done is combined with professional passion, the craft worker becomes an artist, and fabric becomes pure lace, giving these women and men - serious, focused, often self-effacing but always radiant an air of immortality. Photographs: Paul Maurer. Textes: Delphine Loez. Fine copy.
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