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With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who, what

win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan. Dress listeners, we hope that you are appropriately fluffed and flounced

for today's episode, which is part two of our discussion of the history of European lace.

Earlier this week, Michelle Major, Professor Emerita at the Bard Graduate Center and

Emma Cormick, Associate Curator at the Bard Graduate Center and NYC joined us to talk about their

tour de force exhibition, Threads of Power, Lace from the textile museum St. Fallon,

which is currently on view now through January 1st, 2023.

Earlier this week, Emma and Michelle chatted with us about the early origins of lace, making

techniques and tools as well as the power dynamics between lace makers and its wearers.

And today, we turn our attention to the emergence of machine-made laces and the technologies that

made them possible. You know, April, this is one of the core themes we export on dress,

and that is fashion's evolution, that is inextricably bound to technological advancements throughout

history. As we all know, by this point, this is one of my favorite things to talk about and never

stop talking about it. And also one of the reasons I actually became a fashion historian.

Well, you know, that and also pretty, pretty things, which we all love. But in today's episode,

the three of us also discuss some of our favorite objects in the exhibition of which there is no

dearth, a total of 275 examples of lace dating back to the 16th century, as well as paintings,

prints, books, tools and garments, which contextualize and evidence more than 400 years of lace-making

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