EXQUISITE LINENS

 

 

 

 

TAMBOUR. Chain-stitched work at one time done only by hand, the name coming from the "tambour" stand used by the operator to hold the work. On fine goods the work is still done by hand but by far the larger proportion of tambour work is now done by sewing machine. See Brussels. See Limerick.
TAPE. In the Sixteenth Century many fine Flemish laces were made by manipulating a taj>e which itself was of lacey construction, hand-marle. To-day most of the tape laces are of machine-made tape. See lace curtain references, Marie Antoinette, Renaissance, Lacet Arabian.

 

 

 

 

TATTING. Knotted work made by means of a small shuttle. The French called this lace Frivolitc because light and fragile. It must not be confused with the crochet work, which is done with a crochet needle, nor with Macrame.
TENERIFFE. A lace similar to the Toile d'Arraignee with motifs like Paraguay of wheels and circles. Considerable of this Jace is made in the Canary Islands, doubtless due to the same Portuguese influence that is felt in Paraguay lace, South America.
The natives make the wheels of the lace over a spool about two or two and a-half inches hi diameter, held in the hand. They first make the circle of thread over the top of the spool and fill in the center, crossing over and back with a needle.

TIJES. Synonymous with Brides.
TIRE, TIRATO. See Point Tire.TOILE. The name of the filling of a pattern of lace as distinguished from the net or ground. See Point Plat.
TOILE D'ARRAIGNEE OR NANDUTI. A lace made in Paraguay by a needle on a cardboard pattern, sometimes called Paraguay lace. Looks like bobbin lace.


TONDER. See Danish.
TORCHON. Simple bobbin lace sometimes called Beggars' lace because inexpensive and simple. Made by the peasants of almost every country in Europe.

 

TOURNAY. Famous at one time for the threads used in making old Brussels lace.
TREILLE. Term by which the grounds of needle-point and bobbin laces are distinguished from the toile or pattern filling.
TROLLE KANT. Old bobbin lace made in Flanders in the S xteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Term is applied to English bobbin lace, having a thick cordonnet, called Trolle lace. Potten Kant was Trolle Kant lace showing the pot pattern, a symbol of the Annunciation.
TULLE. Very fine machine net made at one time in Tulle, or possibly Toul. Its origin is obscure. Tulle was adopted by the French courts in place of figured or patterned lace. In 1818 it had an enormous vogue and the markets of Europe were inundated with tulle. See Nottingham.
TURKISH. Hungarian laces are frequently called Turkish laces.
TURNOUT. Old town of Flanders.

TUSCANY. Simple laces of which Sienna is the only pronounced example.
TYROL. Modern Austrian laces are often called Tyrol laces.
URBINO. ltalian'lace made in Urbino.
UTTMANN. Barbara Uttmann, 1561, introduced lace manufacture. into the Erzgebirge. She introduced pillow lace into Germany, having learned lace-making from a native of Brabant. She was buried at Annaberg.

 

 

 

VALENCIENNES. One of the most easily distinguished of all the net laces. There is no raised work. The designs are all flat and the net is diamond-shaped, the four threads plaited. Machine Valenciennes very closely follows even this detail but cotton always shows fluffy and it thickens on washing, while the linen of the real Valenciennes retains its delicacy and firmness.( see Valenciennes Lace Styles)

VAN DYKE, the Van Dyke edge was a pointed edge to collars. Van Dyke was a Flemish workman whose stocking frame, utilized in the making of an early form of lace, produced an indented edge, hence Van Dyke edge.

VEILS. Veils and veilings have been used from the earliest prehistoric time. Turkish, Jewish, Assyrian women all wore veils.

 

VENETIAN. The needle-point lace of Venice is called Venetian Point. Reticella was the beginning, the application of the needle-point to cutwork. When the cutwork character was abandoned and the artists depended entirely upon the needle stitch the lace became Punto in Aria, or stitches in the air. This was the beginning of Point Venise, or Venetian Point, which lace covered particularly a number of varieties: Flat or Plat, and padded work or Punto Avorio. Raised Point was the kind of lace that was raised or padded, sometimes called Gros Point. The Gros Point was frequently called Punto Tagliato a Fogliami and the outlines of the flowers.
A series of five cuts illustrating the process of making Venetian lace. First the black paper is pricked with the design, which is then outlined, next filled in, then padded and lastly corded.
were stuffed; hence, Raised Point, or Gros Point, as distinguished from the finer qualities. Sometimes called Rose Point, or Gros Point, or Punto a Relievo. Other varieties are called Coral Point or Coraline, because of the coral like formation of the ground.
Modern Venetian laces are made with a bobbin and are technically called Guipure de Venise, or Point Plat de Venise

aux Fuseaux (Fr. bobbin), which means literally French flat Venetian point made with bobbins, and the trade have abbreviated the term to Flat Venetian Point, which is obviously a misnomer.

VENEZUELA. Considerable drawn-work is made in Venezuela. Usually the edges are buttonholed instead of simply overcast.
VENICE. See Venitian.
VIERGE, DENTELLE A LA. A simple pattern of lace made in Dieppe.
VOLOGDA. A coarse quality of lace is made at Vologda, Russia. It resembles Torchon but is made with colors, sometimes silk. It is a bobbin lace,

VRAIE. French term describing real or hand-made laces. Among the most important French centers for the production of hand-made laces in commercial quantities are Le Puy, Cra-ponne, Dijon, where the output is largely bobbin laces of the Cluny and Duchesse order.

VRAI RESEAU. A term applying to real bobbin Reseau which succeeded the brides as a means of connecting patterns.

WARP LACE. The first warp lace machine was made about 1775 by Crane, who produced a machine in which warp threads were used. With the Crane machine, plain meshes and warpings were first made. In addition to plain warp nets or warp webbing, there are now made all kinds of laces, edgings, insertions, tatting, cords, braids, veilings and curtains; in fact, the practice of warp lace machinery is endless.

WILTSHIRE, England, famous for bobbin lace.
YAK. Coarse pillow lace made in Bucks in Northamptonshire. Crochet lace made of wool is also called Yak.

YOKOHAMA. A great deal of Honiton as well as other lace is made in the lace school at Yokohama.

YOUGHAL. At the Youghal convent in Ireland, much lace is made. Irish point was first produced here and other Irish laceworkers learned their art through Youghal.

YPRES. A Flemish town where Mechlin and Valenciennes were produced.
ZANTE. Identical with Greek point. Manufacture long discontinued although Zante lace is still made in some parts of the Ionian Islands..