Crocheted Lace

Crochet lace is an application of the art of crochet. Generally it uses finer threads and more decorative styles of stitching - often with flowing lines or scalloped edges to give interest. Variation of the size of the holes also gives a piece a "lacy' look.

Originally crocheted lace was not regarded as true lace. Crocheting was considered easy and less time consuming, but otherwise clearly inferior surrogate for "true" lace such as bobbin lace, needle lace or netting. The first examples of crocheted lace try to reproduce the products of other lacemaking techniques as faithfully as possible. Later, the many possibilities and inherent beauty of crocheted lace were appreciated more.

Main styles of crocheted lace include filet crochet, Irish crochet and its modern derivatives, pineapple crochet. Freeform crocheted lace also exists, examples of which are pieces striving to imitate reticella lace.

Crochet
Tools
  • Crochet hook
  • Cro-hook
  • Hook gauge
  • List of yarns for crochet and knitting
  • Scissors
  • Stitch marker
Techniques and motifs
  • Bead crochet
  • Blocking
  • Gauge
  • Granny square
  • List of crochet stitches
  • Shell stitch
  • Tapestry crochet
  • Tunisian crochet
Items
  • Amigurumi
  • Bilum
  • Doily
Crocheted lace
  • Broomstick lace
  • Crocheted lace
  • Filet crochet
  • Hairpin lace
  • Irish crochet
Related
  • Crochet thread
  • Dye lot
  • Yarn
Lace types
Needle lace
  • Punto in Aria
  • Point de Venise
  • Point de France
  • Alençon
  • Argentan
  • Argentella
  • Armenian
  • Halas lace
  • Hollie Point
  • Point de Gaze
  • Kenmare Lace
  • Limerick
  • Pag
  • Youghal
Embroidered
Reticella
Buratto
Filet/Lacis
Ñandutí
Needlerun net
Tambour
Teneriffe
Cutwork
Battenberg
Broderie Anglaise
Carrickmacross
Bobbin lace
Ancient
Antwerp
Ecclesiastical
Freehand
Torchon
Continental
Binche
Flanders
Mechlin
Paris
Valenciennes
Point ground
Arras
Bayeux
Blonde
Bucks point
Chantilly
Tønder
Beveren
Lille
Guipure
Genoese
Venetian
Bedfordshire
Cluny
Maltese
Yak lace
Part laces
Honiton
Bruges
Brussels
Tape
Milanese
Flemish
Russian
Peasant
Tape lace
  • Mezzopunto
  • Princess
  • Renaissance
  • Romanian point
Knotted lace
  • Macramé
  • Tatting
Crocheted lace
  • Broomstick lace
  • Irish crochet
  • Hairpin
  • Filet crochet
Lace knitting
  • Lace knitting
Machine-made lace
  • Warp Knit
  • Bobbinet
  • Leavers
  • Pusher
  • Barmen
  • Curtain Machine
  • Chemical
Hand-finished
Hand-run Gimps

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