Point de Venise
Point de Venise is a Venetian needle lace from the 17th century characterized by scrolling floral patterns with additional floral motifs worked in relief (in contrast with the geometric designs of the earlier reticella).[2] By the mid-seventeenth century, it had overtaken Flemish lace as the most desirable type of lace in contemporary European fashion.[3]
Beginning in 1620 it became separated into Venetian raised lace (which became known by the French term "gros point de Venise" or sometimes the Italian punto a relievo, "relief lace" [4]) and Venetian flat lace (in French "point plat de Venise"). The former (now known in English as "Venetian Gros Point"[5]) is characterized by having a raised pattern created through the use of cordonette worked over with buttonholing so that the curves achieved an elevated quality similar to a relief carving.[6]
Emily Leigh Lowes, historian of lace and needlework, described the history of this textile:[7] Template:Quote
Notes
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- ↑ Montupet and Schoeller, Lace: The Elegant Web, p. 34
- ↑ Lefébure, Embroidery and Lace, p. 214
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References
- Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835: Embroidery and Lace: Their Manufacture and History from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Day (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1888), ed. by Alan S. Cole Online Books page
- Montupet, Janine, and Ghislaine Schoeller: Lace: The Elegant Web, Template:ISBN
- Lowes, Emily Leigh: "Chats on Old Lace & Needlework". (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908). [1]
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