Praise for Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St.

Gallen

“Handmade lace has been called ‘white gold,’ and the BGC exhibition … shows us why.”

Laura Jacobs, Wall Street Journal

“Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen [is] an enticing exhibition [that] examines this textile’s development and technologies, its economic inequities and its role as status symbol among secular and ecclesiastical elites, as well as its seductive beauty. … Cormack and Majer have edited an extraordinary catalog / history, plainly written yet specialized.”

Roberta Smith, New York Times

“It turns out that some books can, indeed, be judged by their covers: Their exterior beauty can signal an interior of visual and textual pleasures. So it is with the handsomely proportioned, lace-embossed exterior of Threads of Power: Lace From the Textilmuseum St. Gallen at the Bard Graduate Center. Inside, the history of lace is told in about 17 highly focused essays that cover a great deal of cultural, political and economic as well as lace-making history without being overwhelming. It’s a big ongoing saga, made newly comprehensible here with the latest research, clear prose and lots of pictures.”

Roberta Smith, Best Art Books of 2022, New York Times

Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum

St. Gallen “dazzlingly conveys not only how wearers of lace climbed social ladders, but also how they financed the careers of the women who stitched it with bleary eyes.”

Eve Kahn, Apollo

“The Isabel Toledo–designed ensemble worn by Michelle Obama for the 2009 presidential inauguration is ‘one of the exhibition’s standouts.’”

Stephanie Sporn, Architectural Digest / ADPro

“Bard Graduate Center just published this incredibly extensive book that is the first volume of its kind to examine both historical and contemporary lace from around the globe.”

Fashion designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla, CNN’s Best Books of 2022

Threads of Power “offers more than enough to ignite the heart and mind of any lace-lover.”

Yona McDonough, Airmail