Renaissance lace

Type of tape lace using machine-made tapes

Renaissance lace is a type of tape lace. The name refers to the rebirth of antique Italian forms to create the patterns of this 19th century lace.^[1]

The outline of the design is made of bought tape. Manufacturers produced a huge number of suitable tapes in different widths and sometimes with picots or other decoration. The lacemaker bought the tape and sewed it onto a paper with the pattern. Then she filled up the empty spaces with a needle using a variety of stitches. Finally the lace was cut from the paper.^[2] The tape laces varied from well-worked versions with a variety of filling stitches to those where the tapes were simply joined with a few needle-made bars.^[3]

Some regard the whole genre as being Renaissance lace, with varying forms such as Branscombe, Princess and Battenberg.^[1] Others regard Renaissance Lace as one of the types.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Pat Earnshaw. A Dictionary of Lace. Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-700-4.
^ Trabel - Belgium travel network. "The History of Lace in Belgium, Brussels and Bruges". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b Leader, Jean E. "Lace Types: Tape Lace". Retrieved 26 July 2022.

Lace types

Needle lace

Filet lace
Punto in Aria
Point de Venise
Point de France
Alençon
Aemilia Ars
Argentan
Argentella
Armenian
Burano
Halas lace
Hedebo embroidery
Hollie Point
Nallıhan
Point de Gaze
Kenmare Lace
Ñandutí
Oya
Pag
Puncetto Valsesiano
Tenerife
Youghal

Embroidery	Buratto Filet lace Reticella Limerick Needlerun net Tambour
Cutwork	Broderie anglaise Carrickmacross Lefkara lace Saba lace

Bobbin lace

Mesh grounds	Torchon Freehand Arras Bayeux Beeralu Blonde Bucks point Chantilly Chefoo Cogne Tønder Beveren Lille Binche Flanders Paris Valenciennes Antwerp Mechlin Ipswich 's Gravenmoer Mundillo
Guipure	Greek Genoese Bedfordshire Cluny Dentelle du Puy Liptov Maltese Yak lace
Part laces	Honiton Bruges Brussels Rosaline Point d'Angleterre
Tape	Cantù Milanese Hinojosa Russian Idrija Schneeberg Peasant