Pattern family

Lace & Openwork

Lace and its kin are cloth made of holes: open structures of looped, twisted, or knotted thread, or solid cloth punched and stitched into openwork. The family runs from true needle and bobbin lace to the punched eyelet of broderie anglaise, and the renders here are stylized impressions of the hole-and-figure surface rather than any specific historical lace.