Needle Lace
Needlelace is a type of lace created using a needle and thread to stitch up hundreds of small stitches to form the lace itself.
Beginning in C17th Italy, a variety of styles developed where the work is started by securing guiding threads onto a stiff background with stitches that can later be removed. The work is then built up using a variety of stitches. When the entire area is covered with the stitching, the stay-stitches are released and the lace comes away from the paper.
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Needle lace standing collar
From The Met, needle lace standing band (collar) with tassels, 1610-20, possibly French
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Selected Artworks
Chalice veil 16th century Medium: Needle lace, punto in aria, punto di Ragusa, linen
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Baby's Coif | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections
Flemish baby’s coif, 1550-1600 Linen, with cutwork Museum number: 7523-1861 Both adult and miniature versions of these cutwork coifs have survived from the second half of the sixteenth century. The technique of cutwork was the creation of a delicate structure of needle lace stitches across the spaces cut in a fine linen ground.
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