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Needle Lace borders from the Erzgebirge mountains Germany in 1884, displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Needle Lace, detail

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.

In its purest form the only equipment and materials used are a needle, thread and scissors. This form of lace making originated in Armenia where there is evidence of a lace making tradition dating back to the pre-christian era. Turkish needlelace is also very popular around the world.

Beginning in the 17th century in Italy, a variety of styles developed where the work is started by securing heavier guiding threads onto a stiff background (such as thick paper) with stitches that can later be removed. The work is then built up using a variety of stitches - the most basic being a variety of buttonhole or blanket stitch. When the entire area is covered with the stitching, the stay-stitches are released and the lace comes away from the paper. See reticella.

Needle lace is also used to create the fillings or insertions in cutwork.

External links

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Needle lace

• Nanduti Lace
• Needlelace - Lace Identification and Types
• Virtual Museum of Textile Arts

References

• Structures of Antique Lace. A collection of Antique Laces. Retrieved on July 26, 2005.

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Knotted lace:	Macramé · Tatting
Crocheted lace:	Irish crochet · Hairpin · Filet crochet
Lace knitting:	Lace knitting
Machine-made lace:	Warp Knit · Bobbinet · Leavers · Pusher · Barmen · Curtain Machine · Chemical Hand Finished: Hand-run Gimps

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