Lace

Usually, the attitude to "street art", or simply graffitis, is quite negative. City authorities fine artists who paint on walls and then paint over graffiti. But in some cities, the leadership went to meet street artists and allowed them to bring creativity to the urban environment. Let&# ...

Lace in everyday clothes. Modern lace dresses look great not only in boudoirs but also at offices, for a walk, at business meetings.  Lace dresses have become a trend, combining femininity, sophistication and sensual simplicity. Rich or pale pastel colors, dense cord lace or weightless ...

Tatiana Nikodimovna Kosourova, head of the sector of decorative and applied art of the Department of Western European Art in the Hermitage, talks about embroidery on women's clothes in the late 18th century. During the online tour of the "Caretaker" eposide, which took place in the ...

In the 18th century, ceremonial clothing was so closely connected with Versailles and the French Court that it was commonly called robe à la française. The Robe à la française has a fitted top dress that is open at the front and has a decorative bodice insert ...

At the end of the 19th century, collars "Bertha" became famous, which lay on shoulders and partly on lush sleeves (this style of sleeves is called "leg of mutton"). The main difference between these collars was their width, in size they are sometimes of size more like cape than a ...

Are you ready for St. Valentine's Day? I'll show you how I sew my soft fabric hearts, I hope you`ll find it useful :) I will need the following materials and tools: - fabric, - ribbons, - lace, - cardboard, - padding polyester, - sewing machine, - stencil, - glue, - glue gun. To begin with ...

Once again I could not walk by paper... But it's not just paper. They are real masterpieces made by the Japanese self-taught artist Naho Katayama. She creates real lace of white paper, striking with their complexity, ornateness and amazing beauty! Naho Katayama was born and raised in Nagasaki, ...

Preparing for the last publication about repairing and lengthening of sleeves, I found some interesting photos on the topic of how you can change the length of other pieces of clothing. I present to you a selection of ideas that seemed interesting to me. Nowadays, of course, to repair and lengthen ...

Like a bolt from the blue I suddenly fell in love with... lace!  Dear friends, have you ever heard about how real French lace is made? I was never familiar with this topic and I rarely visited textile stores. Especially the stores with lace. I always thought that I am not interested in it. There is ...

There is no limit to human fantasy. Artists paint the world with rainbow colors, because they see it through their souls. It is always interesting to look at something new and unusual. For me, the works of Ulyana Sergeenko have became recently this something new. Her ideas and findings become a ...

Clothes make the man :)) Probably any girl has a thing that has gone out of fashion. But what if you love the thing and can't get rid of it. How to be and what to do? The way out is in refreshing and recycling! I offer you many options how to take a thing back to active life :)Add laces: ...

Today I will tell you about Debutante Balls in Laredo. After the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848, the city of Laredo became a part of the United States. A little later, in 1896, the residents of the city decided that Laredo needed a festival in the American style. This holiday was ...