#2535 $1,800
Handmade Brussels Duchesse lace wedding train, c.1900-1920
Imagine your walk down the aisle wearing an heirloom quality, lace wedding train, "something old" for your special day. This exquisite wedding train of fine handmade lace could be passed on to your daughter for her wedding. Fine handmade lace is never out of style.
The train is shaped to attach to your gown at the shoulders. The upper portion features a small floral pattern of Brussels bobbin lace; the lower portion features wide borders of Duchesse lace.
The subtle elaborations and intricacies of the floral design are of the last degree of charm. Here are the highly stylized, flowing, curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau, whose influence on fashion was primarily through surface decoration.
To achieve the refined and subtle complexity of Brussels Duchesse lace requires a rare and exacting technique on the part of the master lace maker. Duchesse bobbin lace was a Belgian lace style developed in the 1850s. Parts were constructed separately with filmy linen stitch or half stitch and then assembled. Leaves were often veined with raised oversewn bundles of threads.
The condition is excellent.
It measures: 66 1/2" long from the shoulder to the hem, 11 1/2" wide at the top, and 22 1/2" wide at the bottom.
