France · Lace making; Needle lace; Paris heritage
Dentelle au Point de France — Renaissance Parisienne
The making of needle lace in the Point de France tradition — the French royal lace established by Colbert in 1665 to replace Venetian lace imports and sustain the French state finances. Point de France was made in designated royal towns (Alençon; Argentan; Sedan; Reims) but coordinated from Paris and was considered the finest lace in Europe. This record documents the contemporary revival of the needle lace tradition in Paris — the reconnection of the archival and design intelligence of Paris with the surviving needle lace making knowledge of Alençon (CRAFT-0877-adjacent tradition) and Argentan.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · UNESCO ICH Representative List (2010) — Point d'Alençon lace; the broader Point de France is the historical parent tradition
Bobbin lace made by crossing and twisting pairs of thread-wound bobbins over a pricked card pattern on a bolster pillow.
Antique mouth-blown glass cut to cartoon, painted in grisaille (iron oxide) and silver nitrate, kiln-fired, and assembled in lead came.
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