Crossword-Solution: CUTWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cutwork | n. | An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed. |
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Sentences with CUTWORK (5)
The sprigs, when made, are sewn upon a piece of blue paper and united on the pillow with "cutworks" or "purlings," or else joined with the needle by various stitches--lacet, point, réseau, cutwork, button-hole, and purling.
PLATE IX.--_Cutwork Lettering taken from a XVIIth century English Sampler._--The letters and surrounding decoration shown in this example of cut or open work are built up on a square network of warp and weft threads that were left at regular intervals throughout the space, when the unnecessary threads were withdrawn, and then covered with a kind of darning stitch.
There were a bolster and two pillows covered with velvet, which, with the sheets, were all trimmed with a kind of lace or cutwork.
Bed-hangings, curtains, and furniture-coverings were covered with alternate squares of lacis and cutwork.
The ancient collar from the South Kensington Collection, page 149, shows some of the finest developments of cutwork, when the foundation of linen was entirely dispensed with.