Alfonso Aguilar

Reaching mastery as a lacemaker means a long apprenticeship of more than twenty years of continuous practice until mastering all the points. Alfonso knows and practices them all: full stitch, half stitch, brick, Virgin stitch, intertwined spiders, Spanish stitch, guipure leaves with rosettes, hemstitches, and combed leaves. The poetry of those names describes a work done with care and with the centuries-old tradition of this work destined to embellish sacred art.