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21 Applique Lace
Any lace in which the body (of silk) has a design (of cotton) laid on. The design motifs are usually flowers or sprigs. Originally a hand-made lace, but it is now imitated very successfully by lace machines. Known to the ancients as Opus Consutum. -
22 Brussels Lace
A point lace, having a mesh made with the pillow and bobbins. A silk lace with the meshes partly arched and partly straight. A lace with a hexagonal mesh formed by plaiting four threads to a perpendicular line of mesh. -
23 Greek Lace
Also known as Roman lace, Reticella and Italian Reticella. It is a needle-made lace first done during the 15th century. The designs are nearly always geometrical, worked in silk. The modern lace is only made in linen thread, but in fancy designs. -
24 Honiton Lace
A hand-made lace with small designs of sprigs,flowers,leaves, etc.,of great artistry. Originally made at Honiton, Devon. This handsome lace is still being made at Honiton and district, either applique or guipure. Until 1567 this lace was made of silk and coarse thread and about that year the Flemings introduced fine thread. -
25 Machine Lace
A general term for all laces made on lace machines. There are two varieties, woven lace using warp and weft threads, and embroidery lace, in which a pattern is embroidered on a ground, which is often burnt out afterwards. -
26 Northamptonshire Lace
Pillow laces made in imitation of Lille, Brussels and Valenciennes. Most of the lace made in Northamptonshire was called baby lace, but the fine lace now made of the Lille styles is known as English Lille.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Northamptonshire Lace
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27 Pillow Lace
This is stated to have been first introduced about 1550 in Saxony, and consists of " netting, twisting, or plaiting threads drawn from spools or bobbins into lace, by passing them round pins upon a cushion." Fine lace worked by hand with bobbins on a cushion or pillow (see lace). The design is traced upon paper which lies on the pillow. Pins are inserted at cross lines on the design. -
28 Plauen Lace
German-made lace fabric in which designs in cotton or silk are embroidered on a wool foundation and the wool is afterwards dissolved away by an alkali solution, leaving the lace intact. Mostly made in imitation of the beautiful Point de Venise and other laces. Plauen lace is made on the Schiffli machine and is very frail. -
29 Saxony Lace
Pillow lace making, dates from the 16th century in Saxony. The best resembles old Brussels, but the greatest production is coarse Guipure lace, known as Eternelle and Plaited lace. -
30 Schleswig Lace
Pillow lace remarkable for its fine quality. The art is supposed to have been introduced into North Schleswig by Queen Elizabeth, wife of Christian II of Denmark in 1515. About 1712 it was much improved by Braban women. Tonder lace and cut work lace are also made and sometimes get the term Schleswig attached to them. -
31 Spanish Lace
A machine-made silk lace to imitate the old hand-made Spanish laces. Done in all styles of design. Used for dress decoration. This is a comprehensive term including convent lace, needle-point lace, cut drawnwork, etc. -
32 Antwerp Pot Lace
Bobbin lace resembling early Mechlin showing a "pot" effect in the design. First made in Antwerp in the 17th century and was intended to supply the great demand for Mechlin. Also known as Flanders Lace and Point d'Anvers. -
33 Aurilliac Lace
A French bobbin lace, made with close patterns of gold or silver thread in Aurilliac (see Lace) -
34 Barmen Lace
A kind of crochety-looking lace, originally made at Barmen (Germany), but now manufactured in Nottingham and other lace centres. It is a braid. -
35 Bayeux Lace
The lace made at Bayeux closely resembles Chantilly bobbin lace. The first silk laces in ecru, and later in white, were made in this town in the 18th century. -
36 Bedfordshire Lace
English bobbin lace, introduced in the 17th century. It is similar to the Lille Lace made with reaseau ground and wavy, geometrical patterns. -
37 Bobbin Lace
Another name for Pillow Lace. It is hand-made lace worked on a cushion from bobbins of thread. The pattern is drawn upon parchment which is then perforated with tiny holes. This pricked pattern is placed on the cushion, on the upper part of the pattern are fastened the ends of the threads unwound from the bobbins, which thus hang across the pillow. These bobbins are then twisted and so worked as to form the fabric. -
38 Bone-Lace
Bobbin lace which is made from bone bobbins containing the threads (see Bobbin and Pillow Lace) -
39 Brilliante Lace Work
The term given to the colouring and decorating of black lace used as edging to small tea-table covers, mantle-borders, etc. The base fabric is coarse Yak lace and fancy stitches are worked in coloured silks.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Brilliante Lace Work
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40 Bruges Lace
A fine lace tape similar to Duchesse Lace, used for expensive dresses as trimmings. Coarser varieties (thicker thread) are used for table sets, etc.
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