
1) Embroidery 2) Fancywork
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Cutwork or cut work, also known as Punto Tagliato in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, are cut away and the resulting `hole` is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace. Cutwork is related to drawn thread work. In drawn thread work, typically only the warp or weft threads ar.....
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• (n.) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
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A lace-like form of decorating linen in which shapes are cut out of the material and filled in with geometric, buttonhole-stitched designs. It is of 15thC Italian origin and was used extensively in the 16th and 17th centuries and was revived in the 19thC. See dresden work, ayrshire work.
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in fabric, designs obtained by cutting out pieces of a length of material and either filling the spaces thus created with stitches or joining the ...
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A lace-like form of decorating linen in which shapes are cut out of the material and filled in with geometric, buttonhole-stitched designs. It is of 15thC Italian origin and was used extensively in the 16th and 17th centuries and was revived in the 19thC. See dresden work, ayrshire work.
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Cut'work` (kŭt'wûrk`)
noun (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
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n] - embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away
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noun embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away
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