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Edited by justamoi at 2014-12-6 20:15
Ok...think I've found an answer for you. I have an old needlework book with a chapter on filet and reticella. Filet is essentially normal embroidery or cross stitch that is worked on a very fine net (that you made yourself or bought pre-made). You can either do embroidery stitches and/or cross stitch on the filet net & once it's complete, it's inserted into a piece of linen or similar (so is used as the decoration rather than embroidering directly onto the linen). Filet cross stitch is, as you can probably work out, cross stitch that has been done on a filet net. The finished product looks a little bit like lace but with a grid.
I have no idea if you can even get filet net any more...the closest to it may be something like waste canvas. But the picture in this textbook showed a very fine net, so I doubt waste canvas would be small/delicate enough to achieve the look intended in the original pattern. |
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