Lacemotif

I have made no secret that I love lace, and I confess I ooohed when I saw this picture on the Pin Pals blog yesterday. It is so deliciously Seventies, so clever in its imaginative use of lace as a collage material, so striking, so bold, graphic … so … chartreuse. The picture is from Collage: Unusual designs from everyday materials, edited by Linda Doeser (Marshall Cavendish Publications Ltd, 1976).

There is something exotic about it too – perhaps it is the tropical colours, the vaguely eastern flavour, with the wild-plumaged bird atop a tree and feline prancing amongst the trees. It reminds me a little of Indian miniature paintings, but that is another story.