What is filet handmade lace?

Crochet is a type of handmade filet lace.

There are two different forms. One of the most common is crochet, and the other is handmade netting in which you come back into the netting with needle and thread to fill in some of the holes with a pattern. That's definitely considered to be one of the true laces. It is not done very commonly. I don't know that I've even seen it. I think people do some with crochet, but I don't know that I have ever seen anybody actually do it. I have a book on regular filet, though. It's difficult, but the most difficult are the bobbin laces and another extremely fine lace called needle lace. And if you are looking particularly the antique laces, the bobbin laces and the needle laces were the elite of the laces owned by the nobility and traded as a commodity all over Europe reaching its height in about the 17th century. Antique lace is anything older than 50 years. The old definition was anything over 100 years. Since not many people are doing filet lace anymore, most of the pieces you'll encounter will be antique.

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