Infant's Baptism cap with insertions ofneedlepoint lace called Hollie or Holy point: the design in the crown shows the doves and the pot with flowers reminiscent of the Annunciation English, 16th century No.
Brides occur both in needlepoint and in bobbin-made lace.
Needlepoint lace-making may be regarded as a species of embroidery, whilst bobbin or pillow lace-making is closely allied to the twisting and knotting together of threads for fringes.
When the bands were to serve as borders they would have a dentated edging added to them; this edging might be made of either needlepoint or bobbin lace.
This inventiveness on the part of the bobbin or pillow workers reacted upon the needlepoint workers, who in their turn produced still more delicate grounds with meshes of single and double twisted threads.
The first-named branch is needlepoint lace-making; the second, bobbin or pillow lace-making.
In this drawn thread work, as it is called, we often meet with the employment of button-hole stitching, which is an important stitch in makingneedlepoint lace (Fig.
Embroidery, however, postulates a foundation of material to be enriched with needlework, whereas needlepoint and pillow lace are wrought independently of any corresponding foundation of material.
Whether of needlepoint or pillow make, both the ornament and the ground are produced by the lace maker.
Needlepoint is made by first stitching the net with thread along the outline of a pattern drawn on paper or parchment, thus producing a skeleton thread pattern.
Needlepoint lace in floral pattern with the designs very close together and connected by brides ornamented with picots.
First, with a needle, when the work is known as "needlepoint lace.
Needlepoint lace of coarse thread, made exclusively in Ireland.
Fine needlepointlace with the ground of double-twist thread in a semi-net effect.
These are all worked inneedlepoint and edged with gold twist, the stems of some of them strongly made by a kind of braid of gold cords.
The edges of the petals are bound with a fine gold twist, as are also the edges and outlines of the leaves, and most of these parts are worked in coloured silks, mixed with fine metal threads, in needlepoint lace-stitch.
On the upper cover is a spray of columbine, the petals of which, pink and blue, are each worked separately in needlepoint lace stitch, and afterwards tacked on to a central rib.
On the lower board is a spray of a five-petalled blue flower, the petals of which were originally worked in needlepoint and fastened on a central rib, but they have now all gone except two, leaving the rib of thick pink braid.
In the upper corners are a butterfly, with needlepoint wings, and a bird, with needlepoint wing and tail.
The curious little New Testament of 1625, now at Oxford, which I have already described, is perhaps the earliest example left on which needlepoint lace in coloured silks is much employed.
Abraham is dressed in a red under-garment on waxed paper, in heavy folds with a belt and edge of stamped-out metal, a blue flowing cape and high boots, all worked in needlepoint lace in coloured silks.
The red cloak is worked in needlepoint lace, and is in deep folds in high relief.
The publication of patterns for needlepoint and pillow laces dates from about the middle of the 16th century.
Gold and silver thread laces have been usually made on the pillow, though gold thread has been used with fine effect in 17th-century Italian needlepoint laces.
Pillow-made lace is built upon no substructure corresponding with a skeleton thread pattern such as is used for needlepoint lace, but is the representation of a pattern obtained by twisting and plaiting threads.
Needlepoint lace is successfully made at Youghal, Kenmare and New Ross in Ireland, where of late years attention has been given to the study of designs for it.
A relief embroidery possessing the appearance of hand-made raised needlepoint lace is thus produced.
These are mainly reproductions or adaptations of designs for point d'Alencon, and the soft quality imparted to them in the texture of pillow-made lace contrasts with the harder and more crisp appearance in needlepoint lace.
Machine-made Lace in imitation of 16th-century Needlepoint "Reticella" Lace.
Portion of a Flounce of Needlepoint Lace, French, early 18th century, "Point de France.
Machine-made Lace in imitation of 17th-century Needlepoint Lace, "Gros point de Venise.
The many varieties of needlepoint and pillow laces will be touched on under the heading allotted to each of these methods of making lace.
Lace-making naturally falls into two classes--the Needlepoint and Pillow varieties.
The same bold lines may be noted in the early Needlepoint lace of France, which had not then become sufficiently sure of her capacity to develop a style of her own, and all show the Renaissance spirit.
Needlepoint lace is made with needle and thread and principally in buttonhole stitches.
To the first-named class we must assign the Needlepoint laces of Italy and the exquisite handmade laces of France.
The same grand styles may be noted all through the great period of Italian Needlepoint lace.
Italian Needlepointwithout doubt evolved itself from the old Greek or Reticella laces, that in turn being a development of "Cutworke" and drawn thread work.
Whether Italy or Flanders first invented bothNeedlepoint and Pillow laces will ever remain a moot point.
The method of making Needlepoint or woven ground often decides the date and class of the lace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needlepoint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: embroidery; knitting; lace; needlework; stitch
