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For the chemical LACE, see Lysergic acid crypto-ethylene.

Lace-making is an ancient craft. A lace fabric is lightweight openwork fabric, patterned, either by machine or by hand, with open holes in the work. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often lace is built up from a single thread and the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric.

• Needle lace
  • The most time-consuming but the most flexible of the lace-making arts, needle lace is regarded by purists as the height of lace-making. There are many types of needle lace — i.e. lace made using a needle and thread. Some of these laces can be made much more quickly than the finest of bobbin laces. On the other hand, some antique needle lace is made from a very fine thread that is not manufactured today.
• Cutwork
  • Cutwork, or whitework, is lace which is constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery.
• Bobbin lace
  • As the name suggests, bobbin lace is made with bobbins and pillows. The bobbins, turned from wood, bone or plastic, hold threads which are woven together and held in place with pins stuck in the pattern on the pillow. The pillows contain straw, preferably oat straw or other materials such as sawdust, insulation styrofoam or ethafoam. Bobbin lace can also be made using copper or silver wire instead of thread.
• Tape lace
  • Tape laces use a machine- or hand-made textile strip stitched into a design, joined and embellished with needle or bobbin lace.
• Knotted lace
  • Macramé and Tatting are knotted laces. Tatted lace is made with a shuttle or a tatting needle.
• Crocheted lace
  • This includes Irish crochet.
• Knitted lace
  • Knitted lace includes Shetland lace, such as the "wedding ring shawl", a lace shawl so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.
• Bone-lace
  • A kind of lace made upon a cushion from linen thread.

Lace types
Needle:	Punto in Aria | Point de Venise | Point de France | Alençon | Argentan | Argentella | Hollie Point | Point de Gaze | Youghal | Limerick Embroidered: Reticella | Buratto | Filet/Lacis | Tambour | Teneriffe | Needlerun Net Cut Work: Broderie Anglaise | Carrickmacross
Bobbin:	Ancient: Antwerp | Pottenkant | Ecclesiastical | Freehand | Torchon Continental: Binche | Flanders | Mechlin | Paris | Valenciennes Point ground: Bayeux | Blonde | Bucks point | Chantilly | Tønder | Beveren | Lille Guipure: Genoese | Venetian | Bedfordshire | Cluny | Maltese Part laces: Honiton | Brugges | Brussels Tape: Milanese | Flemish | Russian | Peasant
Tape:	Mezzopunto | Princess | Renaissance | Romanian point
Knotted:	Macramé | Tatting
Crocheted:	Irish crochet | Hairpin | Filet Crochet
Knitted:	Shetland | Estonian | Icelandic | Danish | German
Machine-made:	Warp Knit | Leavers | Pusher | Barmen | Curtain Machine | Chemical Hand Finished: Hand-run Gimps

External links

• http://lace.lacefairy.com : Overviews by country, by lace type, beginner's sections, and more.
• http://www.oidfa.com : OIDFA--Organisation Internationale de la Dentelle au Fuseau et à l'Aiguille (The International Bobbin and Needle Lace Organisation)
• http://www.internationaloldlacers.org : International Old Lacers (IOLI)
• http://www.lokk.nl : Landelijke Organisatie Kant Kunst (Dutch lace organization)
• http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk : The Lace Guild (English lace organization)
• http://www.deutscher-klöppelverband.de : Deutscher Kloeppelverband (German lace organization)
• http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html : Digital Archive of Documents Related to Lace (University of Arizona)
• http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/education/lacestudycentre.asp Lace resources from the Powerhouse Museum's Lace Study Centre

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