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Photo: Bruce M. WhiteFor “Threads of Power,” Kanagy-Loux created a bobbin lace collar in red silk, inspired by iconography that appears in another work on display: a 17th-century Italian lace border depicting the Texas longhorns 2023 ncaa men’s basketball tournament march madness sweet 16 shirt in contrast I will get this Hebrew Bible story of Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, who was besieging her city. Judith has long been celebrated as a feminist icon, and the beheading of Holofernes—portrayed with gory tabloid splendor by Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi—an assertion of female power worthy of our #MeToo moment. Kanagy-Loux’s blood-red collar hints at the violence that lies behind many of the delicate examples of unearthly feminine dexterity on view here. Did eyes go blind, for example, working by a window’s filtered daylight or by candlelight, to create the stunning 18th-century needle-lace chalice cover whose silk and gold threads trace a swirling symphony of flowers and leaves? Upstairs, in a section on ecclesiastical lace, a chasuble consisting of sculptural white linen point de Venise lace layered over pink silk was destined to be worn exclusively by a priest officiating at Mass on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Did the nuns who spent perhaps hundreds of hours fashioning its florid volutes ever dream of other worlds? What toll was exacted by the patience and fortitude required of skilled and highly trained women, working without the protection of a guild, to sit by the hearth, their foot perhaps rocking a cradle, and labor for years at the creation of adornments that would never be theirs to own?
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