Antique White Flat Venice Cantu Lace 100% Needlemade All Lace Doily

Flat Venice Lace or Point Plat de Venice or Cantu Lace is 100% hand stitched with needle and thread.

“Since lace evolved from other techniques, it is impossible to say that it originated in any one place, although the city whose name was first associated with lace is Venice.” Here is an interesting read about the Craft of Lacemaking: its Origins and History from the Lace Guild in England.

https://www.laceguild.org/a-brief-history-of-lace

Flat Venice Lace is rare and All Lace or Solid Lace is indeed a found treasure!

Venice Lace is known world wide as the “Lace of All Laces”. It is compact in design, distinct in structure and refined in craftsmanship; an excellent work of art. The thread used only accounts for 4% of the total cost.The labour required for such hand embroidery is tremendous.

Lace makers have always been very creative and flexible, combining different, and often unexpected lacemaking techniques to form a single piece. Machine made lace appears fuzzy in contrast to the crispness and sharpness of the designs of the handmade versions.

Flat Venice Lace and Point de Venice Lace are no longer manufactured. These laces are so labour intensive to create that the hours involved in the creation and the cost of labour in today’s economy have forced the price to rise to a point that these laces are no longer marketable in today’s society.

Producing a piece of lace by hand is very time consuming. In 1765 a lace worker would have worked 15-hour days for a full year to make one meter (a little over one yard) of a sleeve ruffle or engageante. A pair of sleeve ruffles would require at least 4 meters.

Here and now, the fortunate few will proceed forth to purchase the remaining last caché still available at The Lace And Linens Co…but not for long!

• 100% Hand stitched needle work.
• Antique White Linen colour.
• Needle made Flat Venice lace All over solid lace.
• Round sizes : 10″ / 14″ / 18″
• Limited quantities.
• Measurements are approximate with a variance of 5-10% deviance.
• NO dryer.