Le savoir-faire de la dentelle au Point d’Alençon

Le savoir-faire de la dentelle au Point d’Alençon est inscrit sur la Liste Représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité. UNESCO : The technique of point d’Alençon is a rare technique of needle lace-making, practised in the town of Alençon in Normandy in north-west France. Alençon needle lace is unusual because of the high level of craftsmanship required(...) Its process comprises a number of successive stages: drawing and pricking of the design on parchment, creating the outline of t