CARING LACES

EMBROIDERIES
After washing and ironing, the material will be cautiously cut out from under

the sticks with sharp and pointed scissors.The embroidery is made on a

frame in order to prevent that the material would be drawn together by

the feet. Perhaps this is the "youngest" kind of embroidery and it is most

popular first of all in folk art. In the famous Italian and French lace

manufactures sewn and reel laces were made and these were extremely

time consuming. Their line-like motives were imitated by the renaissance

or Richelieu embroideries.
These embroidery techniques have been known since the age of Renaissance,

but they got an important role only when Colbert founded lace manufactures

in France. The centre of big hole sewn lace manufacturing was Sedan.
The so called English madeira consists of more defined model elements while

Richelieu or renaissance embroidery comes from the elements of free

hand drawing and wide, lace-like surfaces may be produced with it.