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| Mares Lace Museum |
years as a local hospital. Some further alterations have been necessary
to make it fit to house Mr. Frederic Mares i Deulovol's vast collection of
bobbin and needle lace.
The Lace Museum is, in fact, one of several museums founded by this
great collector. Many magnificent examples of lacemaking craftmanship
have been bequeathed by him to our museum.
The Mares collection illustrates a very wide range of techniques. Bobbin
lace is especially well represented, but there are also many outstanding
examples of needle lace. Both finished pieces and large samples are
displayed, showing a vast range of designs and styles dating from the
Fifteenth to the present Century.
Things worth mentioning include gold and silver lace, called Point
d'Espagne which along with handrail come from Castilla (Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries).
A vast collection of network frontal, intrincate embroidery from Castilla,
drawn work from Extremadura, Ruedas with Sol pattern, silk and cotton
embroidery, lacy embroidery, laces from Venice, laces from Flandes:
Binche, rosalina, grand duquesse, valenciennes, belgian gauzes; laces
from England, Bruxelles, French laces: Alençon-needle, Lille, Malinas,
Caen, Le Puy, Cluny, etc. Honiton, Malta, Russia, and a great variety of
Catalan Blondes: black and white silks. And the genuine lace of this area
called: "Ret-fi Catala " or -Point d'Arenys- presented as blondes with
tulle's bottoms -Lille-, but always made with linen and cotton thread. It is
a very delicated lace, used particularly for religious ornamentation during
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Some of the better known randers were those belonging to the Castells
family, starting with Marià Castells i Diumeró who turned to lace
manufacture in 1862 and soon attained national and international
recognition thanks to the beauty of his designs and the quality of his
merchandise. Work undertaken by the Castells family includes mantillas,
shawls, albs, surplices, handkerchiefs, bed linen, table linen, many
edgings and insertions, motifs for appliques, garments, etc.
Early in 1986 the Museum Trustees, with help from the Town Council,
were able to purchase the firm's surviving trade effects. These include
vast numbers of drawings, prickings, templates, salesman samplers,
photograph albums, pattern books, many offcuts of edgings and apliques
motifs, plus a substancial collection of photographic negatives covering
work done in different periods. The remaining effects (account books,
balance sheets, letters, press cuttings etc.) have been entrusted to the
Arxiu Historic Fidel Fita -the town's historic archives.
to make it fit to house Mr. Frederic Mares i Deulovol's vast collection of
bobbin and needle lace.
The Lace Museum is, in fact, one of several museums founded by this
great collector. Many magnificent examples of lacemaking craftmanship
have been bequeathed by him to our museum.
The Mares collection illustrates a very wide range of techniques. Bobbin
lace is especially well represented, but there are also many outstanding
examples of needle lace. Both finished pieces and large samples are
displayed, showing a vast range of designs and styles dating from the
Fifteenth to the present Century.
Things worth mentioning include gold and silver lace, called Point
d'Espagne which along with handrail come from Castilla (Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries).
A vast collection of network frontal, intrincate embroidery from Castilla,
drawn work from Extremadura, Ruedas with Sol pattern, silk and cotton
embroidery, lacy embroidery, laces from Venice, laces from Flandes:
Binche, rosalina, grand duquesse, valenciennes, belgian gauzes; laces
from England, Bruxelles, French laces: Alençon-needle, Lille, Malinas,
Caen, Le Puy, Cluny, etc. Honiton, Malta, Russia, and a great variety of
Catalan Blondes: black and white silks. And the genuine lace of this area
called: "Ret-fi Catala " or -Point d'Arenys- presented as blondes with
tulle's bottoms -Lille-, but always made with linen and cotton thread. It is
a very delicated lace, used particularly for religious ornamentation during
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Some of the better known randers were those belonging to the Castells
family, starting with Marià Castells i Diumeró who turned to lace
manufacture in 1862 and soon attained national and international
recognition thanks to the beauty of his designs and the quality of his
merchandise. Work undertaken by the Castells family includes mantillas,
shawls, albs, surplices, handkerchiefs, bed linen, table linen, many
edgings and insertions, motifs for appliques, garments, etc.
Early in 1986 the Museum Trustees, with help from the Town Council,
were able to purchase the firm's surviving trade effects. These include
vast numbers of drawings, prickings, templates, salesman samplers,
photograph albums, pattern books, many offcuts of edgings and apliques
motifs, plus a substancial collection of photographic negatives covering
work done in different periods. The remaining effects (account books,
balance sheets, letters, press cuttings etc.) have been entrusted to the
Arxiu Historic Fidel Fita -the town's historic archives.
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