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A lace fabric is lightweight openwork fabric, patterned, with open holes in the work. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often lace is built up from a single thread and the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace may be crocheted tatted,or knitted.
This glossary contains terms used in sewing, tailoring and related crafts. For terms used in the creation or manufacturing of textiles, including spinning, knitting, weaving, and individual fabrics and finishing processes, see Glossary of textile manufacturing. For terms used in dyeing, see Glossary of dyeing terms.
They did not compete with one another but gathered in phường/hội, the new form of craft village, to help others to improve. The Vietnamese government has recognised about 1500 craft villages, of which about 300 are traditional craft villages. These villages maintain the country's handicraft heritage.
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All of these items – felt, yarn, fabric, and finished objects – are collectively referred to as textiles. [ 3 ] The textile arts also include those techniques which are used to embellish or decorate textiles – dyeing and printing to add color and pattern; embroidery and other types of needlework ; tablet weaving ; and lace -making.
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Detail of design for Bluebell or Columbine printed art fabric, 1876, by William Morris. Example of yarn bombing in Montreal, 2009, by fiber artist Olek. Fiber art (fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and ...