Needle lace
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Needle lace is a type of lace created using a needle and thread to create hundreds of small stitches to form the lace itself.
Needle lace borders from the Ore Mountains of Germany in 1884, displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Needle lace, detail
Parchment With Unfinished Needle Lace (England), 17th century (CH 18637569)
Runner (ST557) - Lace-Needle Lace - MoMu Antwerp
Reticella
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Reticella or reticello is a needle lace dating from the 15th century that remained popular into the first quarter of the 17th century.
Needle lace
…puts the development of needle lace in the following century, the 16th, in Italy, also stemming from embroidery, the openwork on linen technique called reticella. To show off their wealth in that period in Italy, the aristocracy favored wearing rich cloth embellished by embroidery and braid. As the century…
Princess Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen of Bohemia, wearing a reticella collar worked with the English royal coat of arms, unknown artist, 1613, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Italy, 16th-17th century - Needlepoint (Reticella) Lace Square - 1920.1098 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Nouveaux pourtraicts de point coupé
Sampler with needle lace and cutwork MET DP162636