Models in Lace
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https://doi.org/10.47451/art2020-11-001Keywords:
cultural technologies, model theory, social practices, bobbin lace, safeguarding tradition, fashion, contemporary interpretationsAbstract
In the past, lacemaking was a craft practiced by thousands of lacemakers who produced material for decorating the clothes and homes of wealthy aristocrats. Nowadays, the making of lace is defined as an applied art. The article interprets the making bobbin lace through the Theory of Models. Selected details from the technological process of creating the different types and styles of the final products illustrate the idea of following a model while transferring meaning from one field of art into another. The author concludes that the representation of lacemaking as a model of technological processes, of lace items, and a community of people who practice this handcraft, could contribute to the preservation of this part of the immaterial cultural heritage of humanity.
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