Crossword-Solution: LACIS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Soon, also, was suggested the idea that, instead of laboriously withdrawing threads from stout linen, it would be more convenient to introduce a needle-made pattern into an open network ground, which was called a lacis.

Catherine de Medicis had a bed draped with squares of reseuil, or lacis, and it is recorded that 'the girls and servants of her household consumed much time in making squares of reseuil.' The interesting pattern-books for open-ground embroidery, of which the first was published in 1527 by Pierre Quinty, of Cologne, supply us with the means of tracing the stages in the transition from white thread embroidery to needle-point lace.

Lace, under the name of "Lacis," had been known in France from the time of Catherine de Medici, who patronised the manufacturers and used it lavishly.

Catherine de Medici patronised the manufacture of "_Lacis_," which was merely darned netting, more or less fine.

Bed-hangings, curtains, and furniture-coverings were covered with alternate squares of lacis and cutwork.