Queen Victoria wore a lace wedding dress when she married her beloved Prince Albert in 1840. It wasn’t that she was so crazy about lace, although its beauty is indisputable. The reason was far more ...

The making of lace is one of those things that almost defies belief. The eyesight, the patience and the steady hands that are required almost seem beyond the ken of mere mortals, and the results can ...

When Mary Salmon of Northville looks at a piece of vintage handmade lace, she sees much more than carefully crafted, delicately beautiful geometric patterns spun from threads. What she sees, instead, ...

One of Nottinghamshire's most distinctive crafts is at risk of dying out if new people are not trained, enthusiasts say. Bobbin lace-making is a centuries-old hand technique that evolved into machine ...

Only few people know the thrill of seeing their artwork on a U.S. postage stamp. Trenna Ruffner, a bobbin lace maker who lives in Grosse Pointe Park, happens to be among that relatively small number ...

Lace is back as a household accent, but until now the primary sources have been antiques stores, flea markets and grandmas. Jan Dutton has helped change all that. She was one of the first to promote ...

Lyn Bailey believes the first time she saw someone making lace was when she was a child visiting Belgium. And she’s been fascinated with it ever since. “Lace is my passion,” says Bailey, of Lancaster ...

Fashion never exists in a vacuum. The industry routinely borrows from art, literature, architecture, sports, film, and basically every other field you can imagine. Wes Gordon, for one, is no stranger ...