Sentence examples for needle lace from inspiring English sources
noun
A form of lace made using a needle and thread.
Alençon lace, French point d'Alençon, needle lace produced in Alençon in northwestern France.
Burano lace, needle lace made on the island of Burano, a few miles from Venice in the Venetian lagoon.
The Spaniards imported a great deal of Venetian needle lace for church use in the 17th century.
In needle lace the design is drawn on a piece of parchment or thick paper, cloth-backed.
DELI KIZIN YERI The American Linda Caldwell carries Turkish-inspired items (6) like wooden tulip bookends and strings of traditional needle lace.
Almost all laces that have some claim to be called works of art are made in one of two techniques, needle lace and bobbin lace.
Burano's lace school flourished for nearly 100 years, imitating 17th-century Venetian needle laces with considerable success and making copies of Belgian point de gaze and French Alençon laces, as well as developing a typical Burano form worked in a slightly brown cotton thread.
The city of Alençon was already famous for its cutwork and reticella when in 1665 Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert introduced Venetian lacemakers into the area to teach the local women the secrets of the grand but very expensive needle laces then being imported from Venice.
The country's outstanding handicraft is the production of ñandutí lace, which is thought to represent a combination of 16th-century needle lace-making techniques from Europe with Guaraní traditions.
Early bobbin lace consisted of rows of deep acute-angled points worked from a narrow band, and the patterns were usually similar to those of the needle laces.
Burano has a long-established tradition of needle-lace making, though precise historical records are lacking.
