# Portraits in Lace

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- Book: [Portraits in Lace](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-freger/portraits-in-lace) ([Portraits in Lace.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-freger/portraits-in-lace.md))
- Authors: [Charles Fréger](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-freger)
- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0051-799-4
- Pages: 264
- Published: 2015-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive. Costumes and headdresses may indicate a wearer’s village, as well as age or status. They are worn for celebrations of a marriage, birth, or a local saint’s day, or to mark a period of mourning. Young girls, women both married and unmarried, mothers, sisters and grandmothers pose in costume for these wonderful photographic portraits. Over 50 headdresses are introduced and described in a separate reference section, accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations. Fréger’s exceptional photographs demonstrate a wealth of pride and personal expression that make this book a unique testament to a living tradition.