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What (who) is cutwork - definition

TYPE OF EMBROIDERY IN WHICH PARTS OF THE GROUND ARE CUT AWAY
Cut work; Cut-work
  • Fragment of Cutwork Lace, Italy, late 17th century (Cleveland Museum of Art) This is an example of eyelet cutwork.

cutwork         
¦ noun embroidery in which parts of the fabric ground are cut out and the edges oversewn or elaborately stitched.
Cutwork         
·noun 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.

Wikipedia

Cutwork

Cutwork or cut work, also known as punto tagliato in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, are cut away and the resulting "hole" is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace.

Cutwork is related to drawn thread work. In drawn thread work, typically only the warp or weft threads are withdrawn (cut and removed), and the remaining threads in the resulting hole are bound in various ways. In other types of cutwork, both warp and weft threads may be drawn.

Different forms of cutwork are or have traditionally been popular in a number of countries. Needlework styles that incorporate cutwork include broderie anglaise, Carrickmacross lace, whitework, early reticella, Spanish cutwork, hedebo, and jaali which is prevalent in India.

There are degrees of cutwork, ranging from the smallest amount of fabric cut away (Renaissance cutwork) to the greatest (Reticella cutwork). Richelieu cutwork in the middle.: 378