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Filet crochet. Filet crochet is a type of crocheted fabric that imitates filet lace. This type of crocheted lace is gridlike because it uses only two crochet stitches: the chain stitch and the double crochet stitch (U.S. terminology; known in some other countries as chain stitch and treble). Old filet patterns used a treble or triple stitch ...
Italy, 17th century - Fragment of a Border with Vines and Floral Motifs - 1920.1129 - Cleveland Museum of Art Italy, 16th-17th century - Band with Figures of Women and Angels - 1920.1272 - Cleveland Museum of Art Filet lace Norway The cover of the book by Thérèse de Dillmont for DMC, about filet lace work, 1900. Filet lace is the general word ...
19th century Irish crochet. Crochet lace is an application of the art of crochet. Generally it uses finer threads and more decorative styles of stitching, often with flowing lines or scalloped edges to give interest. Variation of the size of the holes also gives a piece a "lacy" look. Originally crocheted lace was not regarded as true lace.
Valuable old lace, cut and framed for sale in Bruges, Belgium. Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, [1] made by machine or by hand. Generally, lace is split into two main categories, needlelace and bobbin lace, [2]: 122 although there are other types of lace, such as knitted or crocheted lace. Other laces ...
A demonstration of crochet thread weight: sample filet crochet pattern repeated in different threads. From left to right: size 3, size 10, and size 20. A U.S. quarter is included for perspective. Crochet thread comes in sizes from 3 to 100, although historically [when?] it came in much finer sizes, down to 200.
Battenberg lace is a type of tape lace. It is of American origin, designed and first made by Sara Hadley of New York. 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 ...
It is quite similar in appearance to filet lace but with one important distinction—it is darned onto a woven net, rather than the knotted net used for filet. Buratto tends to also be heavier in appearance due to the woven nature of the netting used [ 1 ]
Cutwork and drawn work were developed to add interest to white on white embroidery, and the methods used in these techniques led to needle lace. [1]: 56–57 A second expert puts the development of needle lace in the following century, the 16th, in Italy, also stemming from embroidery, the openwork on linen technique called reticella. [2]