Cut-Work

Cut-Work
CUT-WORK (Point-coupee, French)
A very early sort of lace, deriving its name from the mode of its manufacture, the fine cloth on which the pattern was worked with a needle being cut away, leaving the design perfect. Supposed to have been made in the 12th century by the nuns of Italy. Does not appear to have been known in England before the reign of Elizabeth. Cut-work, as well as laces of all descriptions, fell under the ban of the Puritans, and is seldom heard of after that period.

Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.

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