- Reticella
Reticella (also reticello or in French point coupé or point couppe) is a
needle lace dating from the 15th century and remaining popular into the first quarter of the 17th century.Reticella was originally a form of
cutwork in whichthread s were pulled fromlinen fabric to make a "grid" on which the pattern was stitched, primarily usingbuttonhole stitch . Later reticella used a grid made of thread rather than a fabric ground. Both methods resulted in a characteristic geometric design of squares and circles with various arched or scalloped borders.Books of patterns for reticella designed by
Federico de Vinciolo (France, 1587) andCesare Vecellio (Italy, probably from the 1590s but printed 1617) were popular and were frequently reprinted.Reticella developed into
Punto in Aria .External links
* [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vinciolo/ Online facsimile of Vinciolo's "Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Pourtaicts"]
* [http://www.museocaprai.it/en/tecnica_Reticello.htm Reticella - Virtual Museum of Textile Arts]References
* [http://www.bayrose.org/needlework/reticella_rev.pdf Berry, Robin L.: "Reticella: a walk through the beginnings of Lace" (2004) (PDF)]
*Kliot, Jules and Kaethe: "The Needle-Made Lace of Reticella", Lacis Publications, Berkeley, CA, 1994. ISBN 0-916896-57-9.
*Montupet, Janine, and Ghislaine Schoeller: "Lace: The Elegant Web", ISBN 0-8109-3553-8.
*Vinciolo, Federico: "Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint", Dover Books, 1971. ISBN 0-4862-2438-4
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
