The author leads the reader to the very beginning of the craft of Bobbin Lace in ancient Greece and in the broader Greek world. She describes how it developed and its migration to Italy and Europe after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.She then goes on to explain its history in Europe and its return to its birthplace with the nuns who settled in Catholic convents in Greece.

Bobbin Lace: Greek Threadwork (English and Greek Edition)

Ioannou-Yannara, Tatiana

Arts & Photography

Melissa Publishing House

An instructive and well-documented source material, colour and black-and-white photographs and typical examples of threadwork in museums and private collections in Greece, are presented here in full recognition of their importance to the international bibliography. Special supplementary designs and patterns analyse the methods used, to make it easier both to comprehend and to reproduce traditional threadwork as well as to create new patterns.

Lace: Greek Threadwork

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Bobbin Lace: Greek Threadwork (English and Greek Edition)

Lace: Greek Threadwork