Lace

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Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace-making is an ancient craft. True lace was not made until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. A true lace is created when a thread is looped, twisted or braided to other threads independently from a backing fabric.

Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton thread. Manufactured lace may be made of synthetic fiber. A few modern artists make lace with a fine copper or silver wire instead of thread.

Types of Lace

There are many types of lace, defined by how they are made. These include:

Needle lace; made using a needle and thread. This is the most flexible of the lace-making arts. While some types can be made more quickly than the finest of bobbin laces, others are very time-consuming. Some purists regard Needle lace as the height of lace-making. The finest antique needle laces were made from a very fine thread that is not manufactured today.
Cutwork, or whitework; lace constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery.
Bobbin Lace; as the name suggests, made with bobbins and a pillow. The bobbins, turned from wood, bone or plastic, hold threads which are woven together and held in place with pins stuck in the pattern on the pillow. The pillow contains straw, preferably oat straw or other materials such as sawdust, insulation styrofoam or ethafoam. Also known as Bone-lace.
Tape lace; makes the tape in the lace as it is worked, or uses a machine- or hand-made textile strip formed into a design, then joined and embellished with needle or bobbin lace.
Knotted lace; including Macramé and Tatting. Tatted lace is made with a shuttle or a tatting needle.
Crocheted lace; including Irish crochet, pineapple crochet, and filet crochet.
Knitted lace; including Shetland lace, such as the "wedding ring shawl", a lace shawl so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.
Machine-made; any style of lace created or replicated using mechanical means.

History of Lace

References to lace are made in the Bible in the Book of Exodus (, King James Version). Lace was used by clergy of the early Catholic Church as part of vestments in religious ceremonies, but did not come into widespread use until the 16th Century.[1] The popularity of Lace increased rapidly and the cottage industry of lace making spread throughout Europe to where most European countries. Countries like Belgium, Russia, Ireland, Spain , Hungary, and others all have their own unique artistic heritage expressed through lace.

In North America in the 19th Century, lace making was spread to the Native American tribes through missionaries. [2]

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White lace is often used in collars and other fabric borders	Lace of the Royal collection, Belgium	Needle Lace borders from the Erzgebirge mountains Germany in 1884, displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum	Armenian needlelace circa 2004.
Koniakow traditional laces	Csetneki lace	19th century Irish crocheted lace	Needle lace

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Lace may refer to:

Lace, a lightweight fabric patterned with open holes
Stay lace, Stay-lace, Staylace a line by open holes in fabric, or the line between open holes (see Corset)
Shoelaces, thin cords fitted to shoes to keep the shoes in place

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Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant.'''

Flax fiber

The term "linen" refers to yarn and fabric made from flax fibers; however, today it is often used as a generic term to describe a class of woven bed, bath, table and kitchen textiles because
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Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from cocoons made by the larvae of the silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity (sericulture).
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Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium sp.), a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India, and Africa.
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Synthetic fibres are the result of extensive research by scientists to increase and improve upon the supply of naturally occurring animal and plant fibres that have been used in making cloth and rope.
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Needle lace (also known as needlelace or needle-made lace) is a type of lace created using a needle and thread to stitch up hundreds of small stitches to form the lace itself.
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Cutwork or cut work is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile are cut away and the resulting "hole" is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace.

Cutwork is a related to drawn thread work.
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Whitework embroidery refers to any embroidery technique in which the stitching is the same color as the foundation fabric (traditionally white linen).

Styles of whitework embroidery include most drawn thread work, Broderie Anglaise, Hardanger embroidery, Mountmellick
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Bobbin lace is a lace textile made by weaving lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them. As the work progresses, the weaving is held in place with pins set in a lace pillow, the placement of the pins usually determined by a pattern or pricking pinned on the
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Oats redirects here. It may mean either the common cereal oat discussed here, or any cultivated or wild species of the genus Avena.

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Oat plants with inflorescences

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Straw is an agricultural byproduct, the dry of a cereal plant, after the nutrient grain or seed has been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of a cereal crop such as barley, oats, rice, rye or wheat.
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Macramé or Macrame is a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting. Its primary knots are the square knot and forms of hitching (full hitch and double half hitches).
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Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace constructed by a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, and other decorative pieces.
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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.
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Irish crochet is a type of lace, which has its origin in the famine years of the 19th century in Ireland. Charity groups sought to revive the economy by teaching crochet lace technique at no charge to anyone willing to learn.
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Filet crochet is a type of crocheted fabric. This type of crocheted lace is unique because it traditionally uses only two crochet stitches: the chain stitch and the double crochet stitch. A grid-like fabric with square mesh is formed with these two stitches.
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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.
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Needle lace:	Punto in Aria Point de Venise Point de France Alenon Argentan Argentella Armenian Hollie Point Point de Gaze Youghal Limerick Embroidered: Reticella Buratto Filet/Lacis Tambour Teneriffe Needlerun Net Cut Work: Battenburg Broderie Anglaise Carrickmacross
Bobbin lace:	Ancient: Antwerp Pottenkant Ecclesiastical Freehand Torchon Continental: Binche Flanders Mechlin Paris Valenciennes Point ground: Bayeux Blonde Bucks point Chantilly Tnder Beveren Lille Guipure: Genoese Venetian Bedfordshire Cluny Maltese Part laces: Honiton Bruges Brussels Tape: Milanese Flemish Russian Peasant
Tape lace:	Mezzopunto Princess Renaissance Romanian point
Knotted lace:	Macram Tatting
Crocheted lace:	Irish crochet Hairpin Filet crochet
Lace knitting:	Shetland Estonian Icelandic Danish German
Machine-made lace:	Warp Knit Bobbinet Leavers Pusher Barmen Curtain Machine Chemical Hand Finished: Hand-run Gimps

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