I’ve had a
good week researching lace curtain designs both in the Lace Archive at
Nottingham Trent University and in a private collection of designs. Unfortunately
most of them are not attributed to the designer or dated and for many of them it’s
even difficult to know who sold them. The image is of a design by Marcel Tuquet
and it comes from a folio of his designs published by Christian Stoll of
Plauen. The folio isn’t dated but they are all large bold designs which were
fashionable at the end of the nineteenth century. Compilations of images like
these were sold to lace and textile manufacturers as examples of good design
and this folio is known to come from the studio of a lace producer. The idea
was that they were used as inspiration and these pages are all marked with
pencil and ink suggesting they were well used and studied.
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