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Beauty achieved by removing almost everything and leaving only the decisions.
means A delicate, openwork fabric or pattern made by looping, twisting, or knotting thread so that the holes are as deliberate as the threads.
from From 'lace,' traced back through French 'lacer' (to tie or snare) to Latin 'laqueus,' meaning a noose or snare — the same root that gives us 'lasso' and 'ligament.' The craft kept the old sense of threads deliberately caught and held in place; 'lacework' itself is simply 'lace' plus 'work,' an 18th-century-style compound naming the labor behind the delicacy.
- origin
- needle lace predates bobbin lace by decades
- economics
- handmade lace once cost more than gold by weight
- structure
- strength comes from holes, not despite them
- industry
- mechanized lace in 1808 triggered Nottingham riots