Embroidered lace
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Description
A lace made by embroidering a design on its original base structure of lace, net, or gauze. Limerick lace is a machine embroidered lace first made in Ireland in 1829.
Synonyms and Related Terms
embroidered net; Limerick lace; encaje bordado (Esp.); geborduurd kant (Ned)
Authority
- Rosalie Rosso King, Rosalie Rosso King, Textile Identification, Conservation, and Preservation, Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, 1985
- The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998
- Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "Limerick Lace." Encyclopdia Britannica. 2 Aug. 2004 .