Armenian lace

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Armenian Knotted Needle Lace Explained Armenian needle lace (also known as Bebilla, Nazareth Lace and Knotted Lace) is a pure form of needlelace made using...

Alma Boghosian making Armenian needle lace. Photo by Kathy Condon

needle lace, with bobbin lace, one of the two main kinds of lace. In needle lace the design is drawn on a piece of parchment or thick paper, cloth-backed. An outlining thread stitched onto this serves as a supporting framework, and the lace is worked with a needle and a single thread in a succession of buttonhole stitches in varying degrees of tightness and in straight lines that support further stitches. The needle never penetrates the backing. When the work is finished, a knife is passed…

The Priscilla Armenian needlepoint lace book, containing full directions for making edgings, insertions, round doilies, square and triangular insets, ...

The world of needlework

All last night, as I was adding motifs to this: after I had tatted Karey Solomon’s little motif, which was - sorry Karey - very fiddly and had a mistake tin the pattern that took me ages to figure out: Fun threads from Ninetta - VERY tiny. Shoddy work by yours truly. I kept wondering if I should get some ... #10 thread to work the Armenian Lace while I am learning, because the skinny stuff is difficult and unwieldy for me to handle. Behold wonkiness: It is a motif though, and in the round; I…

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