Embroidered lace

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, 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." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 Aug. 2004 .