At the beginning of the twentieth century there were four widths of ‘Dickel braid’ available for making into tape lace. These braids/tapes came in about 150 designs, all with close convolutions so that the only extra element of decorative needlework was the making of buttonholed bars to hold the lengths of tape together.
Also written: dichtl lace; dicktl lace.
Sources:
- DICHTL, Franziska (1900). All about Dickel Lace: The New Art Needlework, London.
- DICHTL, Franziska (1926). Die Neue Deutsche Handarbeit “Dichtl-Spitze".
- EARNSHAW, Pat (1984). A Dictionary of Lace. Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd, p. 48.
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