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  2. Saba lace - Wikipedia

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    Saba lace. Saba lace or Spanish Work, as it was known in the early period, is a handcrafted art of needlework designs which began as a cottage industry on the Caribbean island of Saba at the end of the 19th century and grew into one of the leading industries on the island at the turn of the 20th century. Until the 1950s, lacework was one of the ...

  3. Battenberg lace - Wikipedia

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    Battenberg lace. Battenberg lace is a type of tape lace. It is of American origin, designed and first made by Sara Hadley of New York. This American lace was named either in honor of the wedding of Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria 's youngest daughter, to Prince Henry of Battenberg, or from [sic] the widowed Princess Beatrice. [1]: 102 It is ...

  4. Carrickmacross lace - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Carrickmacross lace. (h) 'twirl'. Carrickmacross lace is a form of lace that may be described as decorated net. A three-layer 'sandwich' is made consisting of the pattern (at the bottom), covered with, first, machine-made net and then fine muslin, through which the pattern can be seen. A thick outlining thread is stitched down along ...

  5. Limerick lace - Wikipedia

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    Limerick lace is a hybrid lace of embroidered needle lace or crocheted lace on a machine made net base. It is a 'mixed lace' rather than a ‘true lace’, which would be entirely hand made. Limerick lace comes in two forms: tambour lace, which is made by stretching a net over a frame like a tambourine and drawing threads through it with a hook ...

  6. Torchon lace - Wikipedia

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    Torchon lace (Dutch: stropkant) is a bobbin lace that was made all over Europe. [1] It is continuous, with the pattern made at the same time as the ground. Typical basic stitches include whole stitch, half stitch, and twists, and common motifs include spiders and fans. [2] Torchon lace was notable historically for being coarse and strong, as ...

  7. Blonde lace - Wikipedia

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    Blonde lace. Blonde lace is a continuous bobbin lace from France that is made of silk. The term blonde refers to the natural color of the silk thread. [1] Originally this lace was made with the natural-colored silk, and later in black. [2] Most blonde lace was also made in black. [3] It was made in the 18th and 19th centuries. [2]

  8. Lace knitting - Wikipedia

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    Lace knitting is a style of knitting characterized by stable "holes" in the fabric arranged with consideration of aesthetic value. Lace is sometimes considered the pinnacle of knitting, because of its complexity and because woven fabrics cannot easily be made to have holes. Famous examples include the Orenburg shawl and the wedding ring shawl ...

  9. Janet Arnold - Wikipedia

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    Janet Arnold (6 October 1932 – 2 November 1998) was a British clothing historian, costume designer, teacher, conservator, and author. She is best known for her series of works called Patterns of Fashion, which included accurate scale sewing patterns, used by museums and theatres alike. She went on to write A Handbook of Costume, a book on the ...

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