Alluring creations from France's oldest lace master

At a time when lace continues to seduce as fashionable adornment on women's apparel, it is the focus of a new exhibition at the Fashion Museum in Bath this year; entitled Lace in Fashion - which encompasses fine luxury garments worn by royals and the aristocracy up to machine-made fashions for the everyday.

Evening wear lace featured at Premiere Vision Paris, 6 -9 February 2017.
Photo: © Lucia Carpio 2017

It is equally fascinating to see new exquisite lace designs emerging from the world's foremost lace producers that invited great admiration from the industry during the Premiere Vision Paris trade show held this February.

Darquer's Spider lace adhere to the body
like a canvas.
Photo from Darquer Dentelle.

Among the latest collection for the new Spring/Summer 2018 season is a new lace called Spider from one of France's foremost lace producers which has harnessed the unique beauty of the web produced by the ingeneous arthropod and will no doubt fire up the imagination of fashion designers everywhere.  The new Spider lace, endowed with a kinetic effect, is launched by the lace manufacturer - Darquer and from the imagination of its creator, Frederic Rumigny. 

Perhaps like me you too hold unique sentiments attached to the spider's web - it is at once seductive and alluring, mysterious and captivating.  Scientists have for years aspire to create the amazing quality of the spider's web, thought to be among the strongest natural material in the world.  The intricacy of each web, how it is spun and woven, is magical to watch and appreciate.

In keeping with its illustrious heritage, Darquer 's innovative Spider lace has been produced in its particular weaving that allows the lace to adhere to the body like a canvas.

Photo: Spider lace presented at Darquer's exhibition stand at Premieren Vision Paris 6-9 February 2017
 © Lucia Carpio 2017

In an effort to emulate the strength of the spider's web, the Spider lace is the result of an extension of tulle made into a thread, realistically representing the spider‘s web with the repetition of a similar pattern creating; thus a very «seventies» and sexy kinetic effect is achieved.

Photo© Lucia Carpio 2017 taken  at Darquer's exhibition stand at
Premieren Vision Paris 6-9 February 2017

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Lace designer Frederic Rumigny.
Photo from Darquer.

The resistant thread’s size allows a modest macramé transparency on an obvious spirit of eroticism, according to Frederic Rumigny whose inspiration came from the giant spider Kumo, a creation by French artist François Delarozière (whose company MACHINE designs and makes fantastical mechanical creatures often known as living architecture) that was unveiled in Calais last summer.

The relay of Delaroziere's creation was transcribed to the equally impressive lace-weaving machines, Leavers 7 points that weave their thousands of threads to make the new lace.

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