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Needle 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. The origins of needle lace date back to the 16th century in Italy, and its origins may be found in the openwork on linen technique called reticella.[1] 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.
Needle lace is also used to create the fillings or insertions in cutwork.
References
- ^ de Dillmont, Thérèse, ed. (1902). Needle-made Laces: 1st series. Mulhouse, France: Dollfus Mieg & Cie.
- "Structures of Antique Lace". A Collection of Antique Laces. Retrieved July 26, 2005.
External links
- Kenmare Lace And other forms of Irish Lace
- Needlelace - Lace Identification and Types
- Old Point Lace: How to Copy and Imitate It (1878) by Daisy Waterhouse Hawkins. Chatto and Windus, London.