Point de Venise doilies are fully handmade needle lace pieces that carry the cultural legacy of Italian lacemaking and are always sought after for high end interior design or craft projects. Measuring around 46 x 31 cm (18 x 12"). Material: Champagne/ecru colour cotton/linen thread.
Condition: excellent (gently used) vintage.
How is Venetian lace made? • Entirely by hand using only a needle, thread, and a supportive paper or parchment pattern—without any underlying fabric base. • Artisans drew intricate floral, scroll, or geometric designs onto strong paper or parchment. • In the next step a double thickness of thread was laid along the drawn outlines and lightly tacked (basted or couched) through the paper pattern to anchor it. • Workers then used fine linen or cotton thread with various needle stitches (such as buttonhole and decorative filling stitches) to fill in the solid parts of the design. • For raised styles like "gros point", the outlines were padded with extra thread bundles and densely covered over with raised buttonhole stitches to create a carved, three-dimensional effect. Motifs were then joined with delicate thread bars (brides) sometimes even adorned with tiny loops or stars (picots). • Once completed, the tacking stitches on the back of the paper pattern were cut, releasing the finished needle lace from the temporary backing. • The whole process would take weeks or months depending on the size of the lace.
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