Talk:Needle lace

Different types: examples?
The article states that the purest form of needle lace is made using only thread, needle, and scissors, and that there are other forms in which additional equipment and additional materials are involved. It would certainly be nice to have a picture showing a work-in-progress on the pure form (you know, a half-finished piece with the needle sticking out, that type of thing) to give a clearer idea of the process to those who don't already know. Pictures of additional forms and techniques would be much less important in my opinion, because after seeing the basic form, one might guess the others from verbal description; but not seeing the basic method leaves me lost. TooManyFingers (talk) 17:46, 26 May 2021 (UTC)


 * What this article calls the 'purest' form isn't the basic form in the sense you're understanding it. You can't extrapolate from (one of?) the 'purest' forms to the others. I think the 'purest' claim needs a source and some evidence this is a consensus term. I rather doubt this given the large number of forms of needle(point) lace which use additional equipment. And if it developed from openwork, as suggested here, the 'purest' form cannot be historically prior to less pure ('impure'?) forms either. I suspect that whether the 'purest' form strikes you as more pure is very much a function of which forms you're familiar with and/or learnt about first. Armenian needle lace is the first form I've encountered which doesn't use additional equipment. The techniques explained in my encyclopaedia of needlework don't mention any form of this 'pure' kind. They present needlepoint lace as worked on a temporary ground with variations according to how parts are joined, whether a commercially made net is involved and so on. The article seems misleading to me. If 'pure' is an accepted, technical term, it needs explaining; if not, it has no business in an encyclopaedia entry. 86.5.88.131 (talk) 01:25, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Reconsider "stub" status
I think it's possible that there are enough new references and additional images at this point to remove the "stub" categorization. But I'm not sure how to do that with the templates for the textile arts and craft boxes here as well. Mmangan333 (talk) 16:19, 29 January 2024 (UTC)