You must know the lace culture, this is a temperament that comes out of wearing

You must know the lace culture, this is a temperament that comes out of wearing
Located off the coast of Venice, BURANO Island, which takes about 40-50 minutes by boat, has become very popular on the Internet because of a group of photos taken by photographers; in addition to visiting famous attractions such as the Bridge of Sighs, St. Mark's Square, and the Bell Tower, it has become a tourist attraction in Venice new popular attractions.

Since when did the houses on this island have to be painted in the same color? It is impossible to test the time. I asked the residents on the island and they said they couldn’t remember. However, there are express regulations that when you want to build a house on the island or change the color of your home, you must apply to the government and submit a color card. The government will consider the overall color of the surrounding neighbors to consider whether to approve or not. So the neat and bright huts like a rainbow are arranged on both sides of the river, like a small island in a fairy tale, and every corner is a dreamy scenery in the photo. In addition to the fixed paint color of the house, the residents on the island will use the color of their own house as a reference for the garden or planting on the exterior wall.

As soon as you set foot on this island, you will find that there are almost countless goods sold in small shops, from clothes, fans, masks to doilies, handkerchiefs, etc., all of which are woven from all kinds of lace. Since the 14th century, due to the impact of the outbreak of the Black Death in Europe, Bruges, the oldest handmade lace production area, gradually moved its technology and family south to Venice due to the pressure of autocratic monarchy and high taxes. In BURANO small The island took root and achieved the reputation of today's Lace Island. Because most of the male residents of this island are fishing, women often miss their husbands when they are at home, so they develop a handicraft of weaving their love and miss for their husbands with one stitch at a party. This romantic legend has created BURANO. The rise of handmade lace workshops.

Burano's lace workshop, in 1954, when the handicraft industry flourished, almost all women on the island would learn this technique.

In the 19th century, an old lady on the island (whose name cannot be tested) who was skilled in handmade lace embroidery was sponsored by the countess and established a school on the island to teach handmade lace skills. Today, this school is no longer It has been changed to a museum for exhibitions of handmade lace products over the years.

Due to the complex engineering and time-consuming production of handmade lace, the price is definitely not astonishing that ordinary people can afford; only boutique brands can afford such production costs in modern times. Affected by the rapid decline in consumption power, there are still craftsmen with such skills on Burano Island. According to local people, there are only dozens of old ladies in their 60s and 70s. Few of the younger generation are willing to learn this technology. In addition, due to the inability of the island to make a living with handmade lace workshops in the past few years, almost all of them have been transformed into restaurants or specialty shops in the tourism industry due to the situation. We see that Most of the lace sold on the Internet, as long as the price is not expensive, is not really produced in the island.

The only old woman on the island who can still embroider is demonstrating this beautiful skill to young girls. Now there is only one workshop that is actually operating on the island, and it is full of elderly mothers-in-law. They are concentrating on working.

When it comes to the development of this advanced craftsmanship, it is natural not to forget that Louis XIV, the most beautiful monarch in history, is also the inventor of high-heeled shoes. He is naturally a big fan of handmade lace, and the aristocratic royal family at that time, in order to show their strong national power and financial resources, the princesses often chose gorgeous and complicated handmade lace embroidery as the wedding dress, the more the quantity, the more noble it is. , so from this time on, lace has been equated with court style and luxury.

French princess Louise Marie (1737-1837) preferred to show the noble style of the royal family with exquisite handmade lace skirts.

Everyone is familiar with it. Queen Mary, who went to the guillotine, loved the complicated and layered handmade lace and embroidery.

Her story has been put on the big screen, Queen Mary, interpreted by Spider Woman, shows the rococo style extremely gorgeously in her costumes.

Princess Grace Kelly, who was married to the Prince of Morocco, showed her preparations for marrying into the royal family with a delicately woven lace wedding dress and headgear.

Queen Elizabeth I, played by Cate Blanchett, used elegant and gorgeous court costumes in the play, which won acclaim from experts in fabrics at that time.

The modeling handmade lace in Cate Blanchett's movies flourished in the Renaissance era, and it was as expensive as the Gu embroidery that was circulated in Suzhou in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. price.

But how can these delicate techniques that can only be passed down by hand continue to be maintained in the future? The gradual decline of haute couture and the rapid decline of the viability of these workshops is already a certain reality. With the usual optimism of the Italians, the locals said with a smile, "I don't know, maybe there is no way." Is the workshop that was once so brilliant and brought a beautiful chapter to the history of fashion really going away?