法国加莱蕾丝之城

La Cité de la dentelle et de la mode de la Calais / France

Calais in northern France is famous for its lace-making tradition. In the past, local factories employed 40,000 people in lace-making industry.

Today in the city exists a unique lace museum.

It is housed in a recently restored 19th-century factory building.

In addition to the great collection of lace, it holds

a 200-year-old, still working lace-making machines.

Learning how to control this machine on master level took up to 12 years.

The weaving master controlled 11,000 threads at the same time.

I painted a mural based on a machine lace pattern designed in 1894, which I chose from one

of the catalogs available in the museum archive.

. I also created other works inspired by the local lace.