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Definition of Cutwork
1. Noun. Embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away.
Definition of Cutwork
1. 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.
Definition of Cutwork
1. Noun. A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cutwork
1. a type of embroidery [n -S] - See also: embroidery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutwork
Literary usage of Cutwork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors; an Account of the Different Styles of by Margaret Jourdain (1908)
"... Presentation in the Temple" geometric cutwork or embroidery appears on the
priest's robe. U Later, lace appears more frequently. ..."
2. A History of Lace by Bury Palliser (1869)
"Sometimes the cutwork is of Italian 3I fabric, sometimes of Flanders ;œ the ruffs
... "Eidem pro 2 pectoral' do ope' 31 " One yard of double Italian cutwork ..."
3. Costume of Colonial Times by Alice Morse Earle (1894)
"dressed in a hood, surtout, and a long shoulder sash all edged with cutwork—a
graceful openwork embroidery in the shape of leaves. ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"cutwork was made in various manners. " The first consisted of arranging a network
of threads upon a small frame, crossing and interlacing them into various ..."
5. An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology by John William Mollett (1883)
"It was of two kinds, lacis, or "darned netting," and " cutwork. ... In " cutwork,"
a net of threads was laid on to cloth, and the cloth sewn to it in parts, ..."
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