Lace

The story

Lace here is crochet: one hooked needle, cotton thread, worked stitch by stitch with no machine in sight.

The flowers are made petal by petal and shaped to hold their form — a lily, a rose, a sunflower, a daisy, a handful of tulips — so a stem stands in water glass and lasts years rather than days.

The same hand works the circular motifs of the coasters and table mats, the baskets, and the jute rugs. Because each piece is made individually, no two are quite alike.

Small runs, worked at home between other work: the kind of making that a factory cannot copy without giving up the thing that makes it worth having.