Lace types

Lace types

Valenciennes lace is a form of bobbin lace originally from the town of Valenciennes in northwestern France. It was very popular in the eighteenth century. Its production later moved to Belgium and the town of Ypres, and by the nineteenth century it was made by machine.

A vandyke (or vandyke edge) is a seventeenth century term referring to an edge of a decorative textile, as for instance a trimming, that has a deeply indented, ornamental triangular form. 

Youghal lace (also called Youghal needlepoint lace or Point d'Irlande) is a form of needlepoint lace from Ireland. This style of lace was first made commercially at the Presentation Convent, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, when a school, with lacemaking facilities, was opened in 1852 after Mother Mary Ann Smith had learnt the techniques by unpicking some old Venetian raised needlepoint forms.

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