lacis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a form of lace made by darning or embroidering a pattern onto a square-meshed net ground

   The conservator mounted the fragile lacis on dark cloth so its darned pattern remained visible.

Borrowed from French lacis, 'network or interlacing,' from lacer, 'to lace.' In textile history the term specializes to decorative patterns darned onto a knotted or woven net ground.

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