Renaissance lace is a type of tape lace. The name refers to the rebirth of antique Italian forms to create the patterns of this 19th century lace. [1]
The outline of the design is made of bought tape. Manufacturers produced a huge number of suitable tapes in different widths and sometimes with picots or other decoration. Lacemakers would buy the tape and sew it onto a paper with the pattern. They would then fill up the empty spaces with a needle, using a variety of stitches. Finally the lace was cut from the paper. [2] The tape laces varied from well-worked versions with a variety of filling stitches to those where the tapes were simply joined with a few needle-made bars. [3]
Some regard the whole genre as being Renaissance lace, with varying forms such as Branscombe, Princess and Battenberg. [1] Others regard Renaissance Lace as one of the types. [3]
