Odd stamps : 06 g Stamps on cotton / silk (part 2)

In the 'lace set' there are 2 more stamps :

2 blocks 'lace'

3. lace : type Calais

Calais is know for the city in the North of France, where you can take the boat or the tunnel under the Canal towards Great-Britain.
But it's also known for its lace.

Lace from the Calais region

Lace : Calais style

4. lace : type Puy-en-Velay

Puy-en-Velay is a city South-West of Lyon in southern France.
It's the Northern part of the Loire region.

rough lace of the Puy-en-velay region

Lace : Puy-en-Velay style

Also here, the lace is attached to the stamp, on a piece of cloth.

Odd stamps : 06 g Stamps on cotton / silk (part 1)

For my next item, we go to France.
In October 2011, 4 sheetlets were issued on the theme of "lace".
Each block has a square stamp with lace from a cerain area in France.

the first two blocks

1. Lace : type Alençon

Alençon is a city in the south of France, (region Basse-Normandy)

detail stamp Alençon

lace Alençon-style

2. Lace : type Chantilly

Chantilly lace, got it's name from the Northern French city Chantilly (north of Paris).
The lace is very fine, and often in black silk.

detail stamp Chantilly

lace Chantilly-style

Both stamps have a piece of cloth stuck on the stamp.

the outline of the cloth attached to the stamp

to be continued ...

Odd stamps : 06 f Stamps on cotton / silk

Italy is the country of fashion and style, no doubt about that.
A famous name is Arnaldo Caprai, maybe not a name that will ring a bell with everyone, but surely a name to remember.

Arnaldo Caprai

Caprai was born in Turin in 1933. His father was a railroad worker and his mother a houswife, deeply involved in social acitivities.
At the age of 22, after having various jobs, he started selling household linnen in Central Italy.
Five decades later, he has build an enormous collection of over 24.000 pieces of textile, and this is considered as being the largest private textile collecion in the world!
http://www.museocaprai.it/en/index.php

wedding dress from Caprai's collection

In 2004 Poste Italiane (the Italian Postal service) together with Arnaldo Caprai produced a letter stamp to honour lace. It is aan auto adhesive stamp made with machine-embroidery.

Unused stamp on glossy paper background

Embroided stamp of Italy 2004

The stamp bares the initals of Caprai (A C) at the right bottom.
Postally used stamps are rare, and if anyone has such a cancelled stamp in double, let me know :-)