What is Chantilly Lace?

Chantilly Lace is a style of an expensive substance that was created in France in the 16th century. Usually weaving is manually using silk coils and usually has complex floral patterns. It is often woven from silk threads in different colors; Black is one of the most common. Chantilly Lace was very popular for a large part of the 18th century and cheaper machine woven versions were available in the second half of the century. It has a number of uses. At the end of the 1950s was a popular American song called Chantilly Lace . Spa in Chantilly weosied lace by hand as long as at the beginning of the 16th century and silk flower lace, which is considered a typical style of Chantilly, came in the 17th century. This style increased rapidly to popularity, especially in black.

When a hand -wove lace of Chantilly is created in the style of lace with a twisted spring of matt silk. Complex, fine patterns are woven around numerous pins glued to the pillow on a pre -treated pattern. Each thread is wound around a long handlingHo coils called Bobbin and some patterns can use more than 50 separate coils. Bobbiny helps Weaver to manage the amount of fibers and prevent them from tangling. Silk fibers are woven together by twisting and knitting with complex patterns held on site at the pins until completion.

Chantilly Lace enjoyed considerable popularity in time. It was especially popular during the 18th century, when Chantilly, France was an important lace center, to create primarily white, black and blond or natural color lace. Lace was exported from France to countries around the world and Black Chantilly was quite popular among fashion women who set it as a decoration of underwear clothes and scarves. Hand -woven lace was valued and relatively expensive, but after 1840.

There were also cheaper machine -made versions.

To date, with a soft, silky feeling and attractive floral patterns, in modern times Chantilly Lace is used for various objects. In the 1950sYears were a singer who performed under the name "Big Bopper", even named the song after her. The range of colors is now much wider and more lace is produced by the machine, although hand -woven lace is still available. White is high demand, because lace is a common decoration for wedding dresses and wedding veils. Lace in different colors is also used on women's underwear, especially bras.