Literary notes about LACE (AI summary)
Writers employ “lace” to evoke both the tangible beauty of delicate ornamentation and a metaphor for intertwined connections and fragility. In narrative descriptions, lace often embellishes garments and accessories—its intricate patterns serving as a marker of refinement and social status, as seen in the elegant white lace collar framing a character’s face ([1]) or the delicate trimmings on a garment that underscore genteel propriety ([2]). At times, the term takes on a more metaphorical role, suggesting the interweaving of fate or emotion, as when it is invoked to represent the fragile bonds of the heart ([3]). Even in works addressing domestic detail or social decorum, lace appears as both a crafted material for adornment and a symbol of an era’s aesthetic sensibilities ([4], [5]).
- I looked at the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, the white lace collar, and the straight, severe face which was framed between them.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - Her figure was fine and elegant, her bosom charming; her gown was of pink silk, low cut, and with short sleeves, [pg 19] the collar of lace.
— from Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz - O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, Break too!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - If the tablecloth has lace insertions, it must on no account be put over satin or over a color.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post - The lace cloth must also go over a refectory table without felt or other lining.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post
