Another lace veil
inspired by a nineteenth century author; this time Charlotte Bronte. Again I've used embellished machine lace for this one. Charlotte
married her father’s curate late in life, but before that had an intense crush
on Constantin Heger, a schoolmaster in Brussels, where she went to study for a
while. She wrote to him obsessively when she returned to England, much to his
embarrassment, and the displeasure of his wife, and he eventually asked her to
stop writing to him. Interestingly, although he tore up Charlotte’s letters,
his wife retrieved them, sewed the pieces together and kept them. This veil
references that episode and those letters by incorporating torn sections of a
letter on to the lace of the wedding veil and joining them in a line of
stitching that suggests the life line or story line of the writer. You can see
why I’ve called this one ‘Fragmented memories’.
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