I have the book JOURS ANCIENS DE CILAOS by Mick Fouriscot and Suzanne Maillot, Editions Didier Carpentier, 1998. From the diagrams showing how to set up and work this, it is clearly a form of cutwork embroidery, somewhat in the same family as reticella. Some threads of the woven fabric are removed, the edge stabilized, then complicated designs worked in the empty spaces, anchored to the few fabric threads that remain. So it isn't really lace at all. Lace assumes no background fabric remaining - punto in aria.
I think we could say it bears some resemblance to teneriffe, but only in the complexity of the motifs. Teneriffe itself grew out of drawn thread work, where a channel is prepared in the fabric: one section having only horizontal threads removed, another section having only vertical threads removed. This leaves a fairly large square hole at the corners. These corners were then filled with elaborate star of flower motifs. Somebody figured out how to dispense with the woven fabric entirely, and just work the fancy corners. Lorelei Halley - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
