中文简介：

追踪蕾丝在时尚界的历史，从其十六世纪的起源到现在。

本书让人们看到了世界上**的历史蕾丝收藏之一。它追溯了欧洲蕾丝从十六世纪出现至今的发展历程，阐明了它在时尚界的重要作用。该书探讨了蕾丝与地位之间的长期联系，论述了皇家宫廷（包括西班牙哈布斯堡和法国波旁王朝）所穿的蕾丝风格，以及西班牙美洲的精英统治阶级和土著人所穿的蕾丝。

本书以新的研究为特色，涵盖了与蕾丝生产、时尚和肖像中的蕾丝、蕾丝复兴、19世纪和20世纪蕾丝行业的机械化以及当代蕾丝创新有关的一系列主题。侧重于蕾丝技术、女性蕾丝制造商以及作为财富和权力象征的蕾丝，包括来自主要博物馆和学术机构的策展人和专家的广泛贡献。

英文简介：

Traces the history of lace in fashion from its sixteenth-century origins to the present

Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen offers a look at one of the world's finest collections of historical lace. It traces the development of European lace from its emergence in the sixteenth century to the present, elucidating its important role in fashion. The book explores the longstanding connections between lace and status, addressing styles in lace worn at royal courts, including Habsburg Spain and Bourbon France, as well as lace worn by the elite ruling classes and Indigenous peoples in the Spanish Americas.

Featuring new research, the publication covers a range of topics related to lace production, lace in fashion and portraiture, lace revivals, the mechanization of the lace industries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and contemporary innovations in lace. With a focus on lace techniques, women lace makers, and lace as a signifier of wealth and power, this richly illustrated book includes wide-ranging contributions by curators and experts from major museums and academic institutions.