Kilka uwag na temat nowożytnych koronek klockowych z odzieży grobowej

Abstract

Archaeologists carrying out excavations in churches increasingly oft en discover, alongside remains of funeral outfi ts, scraps of bobbin lace made of silk and metal threads with a silk core. Analysing them is oft en diffi cult due to their incompleteness and signifi cant damage. Bobbin lace are textiles made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread, which on one end are wound on bobbins and on the other end are held in place with pins set in a lace pillow. In the past it also used to be called pillow lace. Bobbin lace was made with many linen, silk or metal-wrapped silk (silver or gold) and cotton threads. It was used to trim edges of collars, ruff s, hems of sleeves, bonnets and gown corsets and handkerchiefs. Th e lace discovered in Lublin and Gdańsk is a bobbin lace made of silk threads and gold-wrapped threads. In three instances the pattern and the width of the lace is clear and in one case the entire sequence of the pattern has been reconstructed on the basis of preserved fragments. So far, lace has not played a major part in research carried out by Polish fashion historians and thus requires further studies, most of all, collecting and cataloguing fi nds acquired in the last few years during excavations.