Lace porcelain got its name due to its lightness and grace, as well as its resemblance to real braided lace. Most
often, lacy porcelain figurines appear before us in the form of girls
and girls, often ballerinas or dancers in fluffy, airy dresses, which
consist of the finest lace with small, small holes. And specially selected delicate colors make these figures even lighter, delicate and weightless.
These delicate porcelain figurines are made using a process known as lace draping. It transforms delicate lace and other cotton fabrics into porcelain. Fabrics
are draped by hand, then immersed in porcelain slip and after heat
treatment are transformed into openwork porcelain patterns!
The process is believed to have been developed in ancient China, where raw silk was used for this. The most famous example, however, is the Dresden porcelain. Dresden laces began to be produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. But due to the imperfection of manufacturing, thin laces were very fragile and broke at the slightest touch. That is why there is so little and so expensive lace porcelain of that time, almost every figurine has chips.
Today,
when creating "lacy" figurines, real lace is used, which is impregnated
with porcelain mass, and then still wet attached to the sculptures. In ovens at temperatures above 1300 degrees, the textile base burns out, and the porcelain lace remains for centuries.
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