Crossword clues for cutwork
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cutwork \Cut"work`\ (k[u^]t"w[^u]rk`), n. (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
Wiktionary
n. A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away
WordNet
n. embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away
Wikipedia
Cutwork or cut work, also known as Punto Tagliato in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, are cut away and the resulting "hole" is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace.
Cutwork is related to drawn thread work. In drawn thread work, typically only the warp or weft threads are withdrawn (cut and removed), and the remaining threads in the resulting hole are bound in various ways. In other types of cutwork, both warp and weft threads may be drawn.
Needlework styles that incorporate cutwork include Broderie Anglaise, Carrickmacross lace, whitework, early reticella, Spanish cutwork, Hedebo, and Jaali which is prevalent in India.
Usage examples of "cutwork".
A linen shift the color of new cream, bordered with elaborate cutwork, looked as though it had a hem short enough that she would not trip over it.
The matching full-length gown hung straight below the swell of her breasts, demurely hiding her legs, but the neckline was low, exposing even more of her creamy flesh through a cutwork motif.
She put the cutwork lid on the brazier with a sigh and settled herself on the window ledge.
The cuff was embroidered in black silk in a design of birds and flowers with a lovely hand-done trim of black cutwork on the edge.
The landlord worked in the common-room: a man elongated as if he had stepped from a comic mirror: an impression enhanced by his top-knot, which he wore contained in a cutwork cylinder.
Tilphosa were dressed in a style suitable to their station during private functions: overtunics embroidered in gold and silver thread, cutwork sandals of dyed leather.
Instead of an ordinary outer tunic, he wore a cutwork garment of gilded leather over it.
And there were, of course, dozens of the white robes favored by High Bishop Padrik and his Order, all brilliant with embroidery, lace, cutwork, and gems.
What with appliques, cutwork, embroidery, studs, and the ribbons fluttering from the seams, there wasn't a thread of the wave-pattern fatigues visible.