This is actual handmade bobbin lace. Not printed or machine-made. Every thread woven by hand using a 500-year-old technique. Still in awe every time ✨

500 years of the same technique, still producing something no machine has ever truly replicated, is a quiet but powerful argument for the irreplaceable value of human craft.

I used to dabble a bit until my eyesight stopped play!

@28671348a6b64f1 In my home town, Rauma, 1/3 of people made their living by making lace during the first half of the 19th C.

No Brasil, principalmente na região nordeste, se usa muito essa tecnica de renda, aliás, fazem até roupa. Essa foto é de um desfile de moda com roupas feitas por artesãs rendeiras.

This is my bobbin lace. The kind we make in Slovenia. Klekljana čipka.

The BBC documentary series 'The Edwardian Farm' has an episode where a historian is taught how, and learned that girls were taught from early age to do this kind of lacework. 40:20 minutes in for lace making:

A delicate art, woven through centuries, now hanging by a thread Bobbin lace-making once defined a city’s identity, but without new hands to learn it, this beautiful tradition risks fading away. Some crafts don’t just need admiration they need preservation.

Je vous joins quelques dentelles La France également était riche de dentelles sur les habits et coiffes avant ✨

The fact that this exists blows my mind. The TALENT needed for this. The PATIENCE! 🤯

I used to make macrame hanging tables, lamps, plant hangers, etc., but this intricate work would be too intense for me to even learn. Beautiful work!

Grandma used to make lace like this. We've still got all of her work, plus materials to do this. I really wish I'd sat down and learnt how to do this with her.

My great grandmother used to make lace like this. I used to sit and watch her first hours because it fascinated me I still have some of her lace pieces

Great grandmother could tat lace, as she called. I got the bobbins mixed up.

It's absolutely incredible - I do not think people realize the scale of talent this truly is. I'm also obsessed with Shetland and Irish lace. The skill is out of this world.

In Slovenia is still an ongoing old tradition- Idrijske čipke.

My grandma did beautiful work like that. She taught me the basics. It’s not easy!

L’histoire d’une région , les petites mains extraordinaires des dentellières Leur vie également Voici un livre qui nous retrace la vie d’époque. Alençon a toujours eu une renommée d’excellence d’exécution ✨

When my Irish Grandma was alive she used to make lace that way.

@ALouiseLavalett We’ve lost many of these beautiful crafts, I bet, if we had learned, people would be far more relaxed, less stressed, less mental health problems. Crafts, art, sewing, knitting, all therapeutic. Let’s get cracking 😂😂

there are many ways of making lace. Why is this "true" lace? If I make some crochet lace, why must I feel that it is not really lace? Equality for lace techniques!

I had a 19th c or earlier handmade lace collar with three-dimensional roses.

I can crochet. But that, is so awesome time consuming and downright hard.🤠😘🦋

I remember watching an 8 year old boy at a craft fair sitting next to his grandmother he worked so quickly fascinating to watch.

@Richetler Beautiful artistry! 👍💯Not appreciated enough in today's world!! 😕 😞

That's awesome.

I'm at a point in my life where this looks like a great way to spend a vacation. Learning something new. Focused and uninterrupted for how ever many hours it takes

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That’s beautiful! Handmade is the way!

C’est magnifique merci 🙏🏻 ✨

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fantastic

I always imagined things like this being used on wood and trim pieces and even on furniture. So beautiful! <3

The greatness people are capable of. Amazing.