needle-lace

  • 71drawn thread work — ▪ textile Italian  Punto Tirato,         in fabric, a method of producing a design by drawing threads out of the body of a piece of material, usually linen, and working stitches on the mesh thus created. In Italy it preceded the development, in… …

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  • 72Alençonlace — Alen′çon lace′ n. tex a delicate needle lace • Etymology: 1855–60 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 73Point de France — is a needle lace developed in the late 17th century.External links* [http://www.museocaprai.it/en/tecnica Point de France.htm Point de France Virtual Museum of Textile Arts] …

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  • 74Point de Gaze — (sometimes Point de Gauze) is a needle lace from Belgium named for the gauze like appearance of the mesh ground.External links* [http://www.museocaprai.it/en/tecnica Point de Gaze.htm Point de Gaze Virtual Museum of Textile Arts] …

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  • 75Buratto — is an Italian needle lace made by darning on a net …

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  • 76Broderie Anglaise — (French, English Embroidery ) is a whitework needlework technique incorporating features of embroidery, cutwork and needle lace that arose in England in the 19th century.Broderie Anglaise is characterized by patterns composed of small holes or… …

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  • 77cutwork — /kut werrk /, n. 1. openwork embroidery in which the ground fabric is cut out about the pattern. 2. fretwork formed by perforation or cut in low relief. 3. ornamental needlework in which spaces are cut from a ground material into which are… …

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  • 78Youghal — ▪ Ireland       urban district, market town, and fishing port on the west side of the Blackwater Estuary in County Cork, Ireland. It is possible that Danes originally occupied Youghal, but the first known history is that of the establishment of a …

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  • 79point Colbert — ▪ lace       (French: “Colbert lace”), needle made lace developed at Bayeux in France in 1855, inspired by 17th century Alençon lace (q.v.) and named after Louis XIV s minister Jean Baptiste Colbert, who started Alençon s industry. Like Alençon,… …

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  • 80textile — /teks tuyl, til/, n. 1. any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. 2. a material, as a fiber or yarn, used in or suitable for weaving: Glass can be used as a textile. adj. 3. woven or capable of being woven: textile fabrics. 4 …

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