Lace Quotes

"Lace - the invention of a goddess and the occupation of a queen"
      Vinciolo

"You can never have too many friends, or too many bobbins!"
Verla Davis

"Lace is as much about the space between the threads as it is about the threads themselves."
Lori Howe

"Keep those bobbins, shuttles, crochet hooks and needles flying!"
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A grandmother's love is like beautiful lace - a precious gift of time and love.
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Old lacemakers never die - they just keep bobbin along

 "This is not an inexpensive hobby, in time nor in money,
but it is a hobby that is very much worth the cost."
Laurie Hughes

Lacemakers do it on pillows and usually in pairs!
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There are no mistakes in lace, just misdirected threads that present a new challenge.
quoted by Barbara Bulgarelli on arachne

"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin."
  Coco Chanel, April 29, 1939

"If a woman wishes to make these laces, and chooses good designs and
does not spend too much time on them, the pastime is a worthy one."
'The University of Illinois Clothing Club Manual' published in 1926.

"whatever improves the lace and makes it more beautiful is right."
Sister Judith

Tatters get their knickers in a knot
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"It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes"
     Mary Wilson Litle
...
A response from an English costumer was equally quotable.
"Yes, but have you any idea how hard it is to get those holes to stick together!  <g>"


 

" Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can."
Dr. Samuel Johnson ( of First English Dictionary Fame)

The real good of a piece of lace, then, you will find, is that it should show, first, that the designer of it had a pretty fancy; next, that the maker of it had fine fingers; lastly, that the wearer of it has worthiness or dignity enough to obtain what is difficult to obtain, and common sense enough not to wear it on all occasions.
John Ruskin