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6 July - 14 October 2001
The Lace for Fashion Award encourages the creation of contemporary
lace of exceptional quality, promoting innovation in the use of materials
and techniques to produce a new generation of lace with outstanding visual
impact and quality.
For the purpose of of the award, lace is defined as a decorative openwork
fabric in which the pattern of spaces is important as the solid areas.
The Powerhouse Museum has been collecting lace for over a century and
has one of the best collections in Australia.
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title image Shiro kuro man's shirt. Anne Farren, WA Australia. Photograph
by Robert Frith
Education resources:
Exhibition catalogue (pdf document 1,373k)
Lace Resource Centre