PREFERRED TERM
Brussels lace
DEFINITION
- n. A famous and costly bobbin or needlepoint pillow-lace made in and around Brussels, Belgium. It consists ona net lace with cordonnet edging the pattern in needlepoint; designs made separately and apliqued on the net. It has a even and thick texture and its form is delicated and accurated.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972. Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Dentelle de Bruxelles
French
Blonda bruxelles
Italian
Blonda bruselas
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/75
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