Needle lace
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Needle lace (also known as needlelace or needle-made lace) is a type of lace created using a needle and thread to stitch up hundreds of small stitches to form the lace itself.
In its purest form the only equipment and materials used are a needle, thread and scissors. This form of lace making originated in Armenia where there is evidence of a lace making tradition dating back to the pre-christian era. Turkish needlelace is also very popular around the world.
Beginning in the 17th century in Italy, a variety of styles developed where the work is started by securing heavier guiding threads onto a stiff background (such as thick paper) with stitches that can later be removed. The work is then built up using a variety of stitches - the most basic being a variety of buttonhole or blanket stitch. When the entire area is covered with the stitching, the stay-stitches are released and the lace comes away from the paper. See reticella.
Needle lace is also used to create the fillings or insertions in cutwork.
[edit] External links
- Nanduti Lace
- Needlelace - Lace Identification and Types
[edit] References
- Structures of Antique Lace. A collection of Antique Laces. Retrieved on July 26, 2005.
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| Needle lace: | Punto in Aria · Point de Venise · Point de France · Alençon · Argentan · Argentella · Armenian · Hollie Point · Point de Gaze · Youghal · Limerick Embroidered: Reticella · Buratto · Filet/Lacis · Tambour · Teneriffe · Needlerun Net Cut Work: Battenberg · Broderie Anglaise · Carrickmacross | Image:NeedleLaceBorder ErzgebirgeGermany1884 detail.jpg |
| Bobbin lace: | Ancient: Antwerp · Ecclesiastical · Freehand · Torchon Continental: Binche · Flanders · Mechlin · Paris · Valenciennes Point ground: Bayeux · Blonde · Bucks point · Chantilly · Tønder · Beveren · Lille Guipure: Genoese · Venetian · Bedfordshire · Cluny · Maltese Part laces: Honiton · Bruges · Brussels Tape: Milanese · Flemish · Russian · Peasant | |
| Tape lace: | Mezzopunto · Princess · Renaissance · Romanian point | |
| Knotted lace: | Macramé · Tatting | |
| Crocheted lace: | Irish crochet · Hairpin · Filet crochet | |
| Lace knitting: | Lace knitting | |
| Machine-made lace: | Warp Knit · Bobbinet · Leavers · Pusher · Barmen · Curtain Machine · Chemical Hand Finished: Hand-run Gimps | |
