A quiet guide to lace: from Calais to Trnava

Not all lace is created equal.

The Calais-Caudry region still produces Leavers lace on nineteenth-century looms — the same looms used for couture. It is slow, expensive and unmistakable. We use it sparingly, on our anchor silhouettes.

The other end of Europe

In a quiet mill in Trnava, Slovakia, three generations of one family still stitch jacquard lace by the metre. Their work is denser, more forgiving on sensitive skin, and arguably more comfortable for daily wear.

When we say Austrian lace, we mean this kind.