page_title: Filet lace
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Filet lace / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Archbishop Rino Fisichella in Codogno Italiano: Arcivescovo Rino Fisichella a Codogno
context_page_description: Filet lace is the general word used for all the different techniques of embroidery on knotted net. It is a hand made needlework created by weaving or embroidery using a long blunt needle and a thread on a ground of knotted net lace or filet work made of square or diagonal meshes of the same sizes or of different sizes. Lacis uses the same technique but is made on a ground of leno or small canvas.
context_section_description: Filet lace is a form of decorative netting and as such can be presumed to have derived at some point from the fishnet that a community would require for fishing, hunting, transporting, etc. and not necessarily because they were living close to the water. 
  The Latin word filatorium is being used to describe filet lace then Jourdain (1904) quotes a reference to Exeter Cathedral possessing four pieces of filet lace in 1327. Latin word filatorium place for spinning, from filare to spin, from Latin filum a thread. (See filatory.) Ingram (1922) states that there was a "cushion of net-work in St. Paul's Cathedral so [sic] early as 1295." Such work, in the 14th century, was also described as "opus araneum".
  Filet-work is the result of knotting a fabric of diagonal or square meshes to create an open fabric called lace. The tool to make a knotted net lace is a shuttle-needle and a gauge stick for measure of the meshes.
  The book Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint, an unabridged facsimile of the Singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts of 1587 by Federico de Vinciolo contains approximately 50 beautiful and well designed patterns which are suitable for filet lace-embroidery on knotted net using the linen stitch.
caption: Monsignor wearing a rochet with filet lace
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