Bayeux lace

Type of bobbin lace from Bayeux, France

Bayeux lace was bobbin lace that was made at Bayeux in Normandy, France.

Caen was one of the major centres of the Bayeux lacemaking area. Three types of lace were produced there from the early 19th century under the management of Auguste Lefebure:

the original blonde de Caen, with its sprinkling of point d'esprit in the cobwebby ground, and the suggestion of curved petals of shiny white silk along the border
blonde mate (as in matt, a smooth close texture) in the Spanish style, made from 1829
the grillé blanc (French meaning a mesh or grill, half stitch), a form of white Chantilly lace, fashionable 1800-1820, with a fond simple ground, with floral sprays worked in half stitch, using silk or flax.

From 1850s, mainly black lace was produced. ^[1]

References

^ Pat Earnshaw (1984). A Dictionary of Lace. Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-700-4.

Lace types

Needle lace

Filet lace
Punto in Aria
Point de Venise
Point de France
Alençon
Aemilia Ars
Argentan
Argentella
Armenian
Burano
Halas lace
Hedebo embroidery
Hollie Point
Nallıhan
Point de Gaze
Kenmare Lace
Ñandutí
Oya
Pag
Puncetto Valsesiano
Tenerife
Youghal

Embroidery	Buratto Filet lace Reticella Limerick Needlerun net Tambour
Cutwork	Broderie anglaise Carrickmacross Lefkara lace Saba lace

Bobbin lace

Mesh grounds	Torchon Freehand Arras Bayeux Beeralu Blonde Bucks point Chantilly Chefoo Cogne Tønder Beveren Lille Binche Flanders Paris Valenciennes Antwerp Mechlin Ipswich 's Gravenmoer Mundillo
Guipure	Greek Genoese Bedfordshire Cluny Dentelle du Puy Liptov Maltese Yak lace
Part laces	Honiton Bruges Brussels Rosaline Point d'Angleterre
Tape	Cantù Milanese Hinojosa Russian Idrija Schneeberg Peasant