Sometimes silk or satin cloth with a firm backing was used as a ground material. The technique was used mainly for household furnishings, such as bed hangings, window curtains, chair covers and so forth, but also for garments. Stringwork went out of fashion in about 1800, when a comparable technique, called tatting, took over.
Stringwork was sometimes known as Queen Anne’s tatting (especially in Cornwall, England) during the late eighteenth century.
See also: passementerie; knotting
Source: SWAIN, Margaret (2001). Ayrshire and Other Whitework, Botley: Shire Publication, p. 29.
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 29 June 2016).
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