For this new lace season, the Fashion & Lace Museum and the Art & History Museum are highlighting one particular genre: war lace.
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During the First World War, a group of women lace makers came together and founded the Lace Committee. The Committee managed to turn cotton thread, essential for lace production into a commodity that England and Germany negotiated over. This allowed all Belgian lace-making centers to continue producing lace during the war, which was ordered by patrons, primarily from the United States. Hundreds of new motifs emerged during this period.