all about the lace.

Which one of you brides has always wanted and dreamt of having a lace dress? This blog post is going to inform you on everything you need to know about finding your perfect lace dress. All fabrics that wedding dresses use are all beautiful, but none of them come close to how romantic and historical lace is.

Back in history, when a bride would wear lace at her wedding, this demonstrated the wealth of your family and prosperity. It would tell everyone that you came from a wealthy family and that you could afford to get married in a lace wedding dress. Things have changed since then, and that is not what people think of when they attend a wedding. Now you see more lace on a dining room table or in the house, but you do not see it as a symbol of wealth.

Lace wedding dresses are still around though. 

They are very popular in the wedding dress world. But now, you can see lace not only as the whole dress but little bits and pieces of lace throughout the bride’s attire for her big day. For instance, in her veil, as an sash around her waist, of course the all over lace look, or even just lace being placed on the skirt or top of the dress.

I have found pictures of many different styles and patterns of lace from

http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/.

 I felt like this website had a huge array of different styles that would help you understand that lace can be placed just about anywhere when you are finding your perfect dress. Also, there are actually more pictures on that website if you want to keep looking at all of these dresses that have lace on them. 

8 types of lace to dress with.

I want to make a blog just for lace because lace is such a versatile kind of fabric and can change the appearance of your dress completely. Lace can be worn for a daytime or and evening wedding, and it also looks stunning for a springtime wedding. You could also use it in a richly detailed Christmas wedding. It flows from each season so that it will never look outdated. When choosing your dress and deciding on what kind of lace you prefer, it could be a difficult task. By knowing the different uses and types of lace, will better your knowledge and make it a better experience for you when choosing your perfect dress.

I am going to show you 8 different kinds of lace. All of these kinds are freely versatile in a way that you could see them over a plain fabric like satin, silk, or organza. You could also see these outlining a dress at the hemline or the waistline.

1. Re-embroidered Alencon: 
This is one of the most popular types of lace, but it is one of the most expensive kinds. Re-embroidered Alencon lace is embroidered Chantilly lace. It is a heavy duty type of lace which is capable of handling large quantities of crystal, 

glass and beaded embellishments.


2. Chantilly: 
Features flowers and ribbons on plain netting or organza. 

This is the most inexpensive type of lace made. 




3. Duchesse: 
A kind of Belgian lace that originated in Brussels. It is a bobbin lace motif.


4. Guipure: 
A Needlepoint lace made with a heavy buttonhole machine stitch. 
The motif pattern lay-out is on a coarse mesh net with a French bobbin lace.


5. Ribbon: 
A cord of ribbon is used to draw and tie together two opposite 

edges at random over netting or mesh.

6. Schiffli: 
This lace is a type of embroidery, which is made by modern machines now, 

but evolved from a hand version.

7. Spanish: 
Is a Venetian needlepoint lace and is designed with flat 

roses on a mesh background.

8. Venetian:
Otherwise known as Venetian needlepoint lace. The motif is a combination of acute-angled points that are individually worked separately and linked together 
by a narrow band, or “footing” stitched with buttonholing.

All of these examples of lace are from http://hubpages.com. They had wonderful pictures and gave me a really good example of the different types of lace out there. 

Please note though that there are still many more types of lace available. These are some of the main ones that many brides use when either designing or looking for 

their perfect wedding dress!!