Cluny lace

Type of bobbin lace

Cluny lace is a bobbin lace style, worked as a continuous piece. It is a heavy plaited lace of geometric design, often with radiating thin, pointed wheatears (closely woven leaves).^[1] It is a guipure style of lace.

History

Cluny lace originated in France. It appeared in the nineteenth century in Le Puy and Mirecourt in Lorraine, reputedly using designs from the Museum of Antiquities at the Hotel Cluny, Paris.^[2]

Cluny lace was also made in the English Midland lacemaking areas.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Pat Earnshaw (1980). The Identification of Lace. Shire Publications. p. 107. ISBN 0-85263-484-6.
^ Leader, Jean E. "Lace Types: French Bobbin Lace". Retrieved 27 July 2022.

External links

Media related to Point de Cluny at Wikimedia Commons

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