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| Needle Lace Among the several lace techniques, needle lace is undoubtedly the most extraordinary and valuable invention. In Venice, around 1450, real lace was not yet worked; what they did make was a sort of pulled … |
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| Bobbin Laces While needle laces are commonly defined according to the technique used (reticello, punto in aria…), bobbin laces are usually named after the country they are made in, such as Genoa, Milan, the Flanders. The tools … |
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| Coptic Textiles Coptic textiles are undoubtedly one of the most interesting expression of Coptic art. These fabrics, coming from the necropolis of Achmin and Antinoe, generally made of wool and silk, are present in the collections … |
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| Pre-Columbian Textiles The chronological periodization of Pre-Columbian history is still rather uncertain and is divided, according to current use, into Preclassical ( 1250 b. C.), Classic (200-1100 a. C.) and Postclassical (1100-1532 a. C.).… |
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| Tablecloths from Perugia The so-called "tovaglie perugine" or tablecloths from Perugia probably derive from ancient Jewish ceremonial fabrics ( that are remembered by the striped white and blue taleth). Their main characteristic is that to be … |
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| The Reticello The Reticello has been considered the ancestor of needle lace, the meeting point between embroidery and lace, because for its execution it is still necessary to have a foundation fabric. |
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| Flemish Lace Italy and the Flanders competed for a very long time for the merit to have invented bobbin laces. A document dated 1493 related to an act of partition between two sisters, Angela and Ippolita Sforza Visconti, represents … |
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| Punto in Aria Despite the predominance of geometric patterns, expression of Renaissance purity until the first quarter of the Seventeenth century, in the second half of the Sixteenth century lace decorations began to go toward a freer … |
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| Filet This French word means “net”. The filet is not a real lace, but an embroidery worked in cloth and mending stitch on a net with knotted meshes, made using a spool and a loom. In Italy it is… |
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| Genoa Lace Extremely appreciated at the beginning of the Seventeenth century, Genoa lace is a bobbin lace worked with continuous threads that is made with piombini or wooden spindles called bobbins, around which … |
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| Milano Lace At the beginning of the Seventeenth century Venice, Genoa and Milan were the most important centres of lace production. Afterwards, the superiority in the production of bobbin laces will go the Flanders that could count on the … |
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| Flat Venice Stitch In the first half of the Seventeenth century Flemish cities conquered the market of bobbin laces thanks also the high quality of their linen, blanched and spun to perfection, Venice, in the effort to keep her supremacy … |
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| Punto Venezia tagliato a fogliame a grosso rilievo or Gros Point de Venise The "punto Venezia tagliato a fogliame a grosso rilievo" named by the French Gros Point de Venise, was characteristically three-dimensional thanks to the padding that created a raised … |
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| Point de France The Point de France was born thanks to an initiative of the minister of finance of Louis XIV, Jean Baptiste Colbert, who on August, 5, 1665 created the Royal Lace Manufactures in many different cities of the kingdom. |
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| Rose Stitch or miniaturized Gros Point In order to overcome the competition of French and Flemish laces, around 1680, Venice began to gradually miniaturize the decorative motives, increasing the thinness of the thread, therefore making the lacemaking … |
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| Snow Stitch or Point de Neige Around 1680, Venice invented the “snow” stitch or point de neige, a needle lace derived – as the rose stitch and the corallino stitch - from the miniaturization of the famous Venetian Gros point de Venise. |
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| Cantù Lace At the end of the Sixteenth century, the production of bobbin laces moved from the city of Milan to the areas around the city, and, at the beginning, especially in feminine monasteries. The art of bobbin lace was developed … |
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| Corallino Stitch From the miniaturization of the famous gros point de Venise derive: the Point à la Rose, the Point de Neige and the Corallino stitch, all of them realized in the last quarter of the Seventeenth century. |
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| Point d'Angleterre There are some doubts about the origin of the needle lace called Point d'Angleterre, and about the fact that this lace dating to the Seventeenth century couldn’t be a "made in England" product … |
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| Agopittura Needle-made portraits, also known as agopittura, are a typical feminine artistic expression and should be included in the wider area of needle-painting. Appreciated since the Seventeenth century, thanks also … |
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| Brussels Lace Brussels lace was created before the end of the Seventeenth century. It was used both in feminine and in masculine clothing and also as furnishing trimming. The execution of the net was rather complicated … |
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| Alençon Stitch Alençon lace is a needle lace dating to the Eighteenth century characterized by a net ground with simple decorative motives. The characteristic of this lace is the ground net composed by hexagonal meshes in… |
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| Argentan Lace Argentan lace is a needle lace that was born in the Eighteenth century, probably, despite the lack of documentation, thanks to the initiative of Colbert during the reign of Louis XIV. The first laces structurally … |
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| Binche Lace From the documents preserved in the archives of the city of Binche it is possible to learn that local lace makers were called “figures makers”, an expression that was no longer used in the Nineteenth century. |
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| Valenciennes Lace Valenciennes lace is a bobbin lace made with continuous threads, the popularity of which began during the reign of Louis XIV, achieving the higher peak around the half of the Eighteenth century. In fact, at the time, … |
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| Malines Stitch Malines lace is a bobbin lace made with continuous threads, that was born in the homonymous city north-east of Brussels. The most common motives were floral, with a decisive predominance of quatrefoils. |
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| Lille Lace Lille lace is a bobbin lace worked with continuous threads that, at a first glance, can appear similar to Valenciennes and Malines laces, even if it never reached their quality. It is characterized by the use of … |
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| Blonda Lace The Blonda is a bobbin lace worked with a continuous thread that has been named after the natural colour of the Nanchino (China) silk with which the lace was made. |
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| Burano Lace Burano lace was born in a lace school officially opened on March 14th, 1872 and named "Scuola merletti in Punto in Aria". The main purpose of the school was to improve the life of the fishermen’s families … |
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| Point de Gaze Despite the fact that the cities of the Flanders distinguished themselves especially for the realization of bobbin laces, because of the local abundance of the raw material, the linen, spun and blanched to perfection, … |
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| Chantilly Lace The production of Chantilly lace began in the Seventeenth century thanks to the duchess of Longueville, Catherine de Rohan, who invited some lace makers from Dieppe and Le Havre in her castle d' Étrepagny, … |
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| Brussels Appliqued Lace Brussels appliquéd lace was the most important bobbin lace of the Nineteenth century. The development of machine-made tulle at the beginning of the Nineteenth century, thanks to the invention … |
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| Bedfordshire Lace As Devon lace did, Bedfordshire lace too, or, simply, Beds, was inspired by the works of Flemish lace makers that represented the inspiration for lace makers all across Europe. The technique of Bedfordshire lace … |
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| Buckingham Lace The industry of bobbin laces that had been established in the cities of Olney and Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, developed following the arrival of a group of lace makers escaping in the Midlands. |
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| Carrickmacross Lace All Irish laces evolved imitating European laces. Carrickmacross lace shows some technical similarities with Limerick lace, by being both worked on a machine-made ground net. Carrickmacross lace is worked appliquéing … |
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| Youghal Lace Youghal or Yougal lace is an Irish needle lace inspired by both the flat Point de Venise, the Point de France of the end of the Seventeenth century, and the contemporary Honiton or Duchesse lace. |
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| Limerick Stitch Limerick stitch is an Irish lace, a sort of handmade embroidery made with a crochet hook on machine-made tulle, invented in Nottingham during the period of the first realizations on machine-made tulle. |
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| Point de Venise à Réseau The great success of bobbin laces, both Flemish and French, more suitable to the changing fashions of the Eighteenth centuries, that preferred very light, almost impalpable laces, persuaded Venice to make her creations … |
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| Point de Rose The Point de Rose, not to be confused with the almost homonymous point à la rose or rose stitch, a Venetian lace of the last quarter of the Eighteenth century, is a variation of the very … |
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| Maltese Lace The practice of the art of lace is documented in Malta since 1530, when it was introduced by the order of St. John, or Order of Malta, a religious-knightly order with mostly spiritual purposes, such as the nursing … |
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| Bruges Lace Bruges lace is a lace worked in separate pieces, the origin of which goes back to the end of the Fifteenth century, since in the Low Countries, at that time in history, lace making was considered a much desirable knowledge … |
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| Duchesse Lace Duchesse lace is a Belgian lace initially made mostly in Bruges, a city that became specialized in this kind of lace around the half of the Nineteenth century. |
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| Honiton Lace Following the prohibition to import foreign lace, sanctioned during the Napoleonic age, the Devonshire county seized the opportunity to improve the quality and the technique of its laces. The lace that determined … |
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| Irish Lace Since the half of the past century, in Ireland, were made two main types of lace: embroidered tulle or Carrickmacross and crochet hook lace. The latter was especially made in the convents of the south of Ireland … |
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