{"id":34872,"date":"2015-01-19T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=34872"},"modified":"2015-01-12T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T21:25:48","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-saint-gave-lace-bad-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-saint-gave-lace-bad-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Which Saint gave lace a bad name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/ruffled-gold-dipped-lace-statement-necklace?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34873\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/25607_BibLaceNecklaceMain-2-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Ruffled Gold Dipped Lace Necklace | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/25607_BibLaceNecklaceMain-2-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/25607_BibLaceNecklaceMain-2-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/25607_BibLaceNecklaceMain-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 7th century A.D., \u00c6thelthryth\u2014better known by her Anglicized name, Audrey\u2014was a daughter of East Anglian (present-day England) royalty who, despite becoming a queen, was primarily interested in a life of spiritual devotion. She even became a nun and founded her own abbey before eventually passing away and being canonized as a saint. Legend has it, however, that one folly that lingered from St. Audrey\u2019s highborn youth was a love of necklaces. And so the locals began to commemorate her by producing fine, lace necklaces. Fast forward to the 17th century, when three significant changes had occurred: The lace necklaces had grown to become low-quality goods sold to those on pilgrimage. The Puritans had ascended to power, and were busy looking down their noses at anything that smacked of prideful frippery. And the name of St. Audrey\u2019s Lace had gradually been shortened to Tawdry Lace. Thus, the word \u201ctawdry\u201d came to mean anything cheap and vulgar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/ruffled-gold-dipped-lace-statement-necklace?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Ruffled Gold Dipped Lace Statement Necklace, $225<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She certainly didn&#8217;t intend to leave such a lacy legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":34876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}