Blonde Lace
Blonde lace is a continious pointgroud lace. The width of the lace is determined by the size of the pillow and the amount of bobbins, with which can be worked. Bigger pieces such as stoles, pelerines and so on were and still are worked in strips and attached to each other with the point de racroc.
The motifs in the Blonde are worked in cloth stitch with a thicker, flossy thread. A gimp is also used. The ground is a tulle made in a considerable thinner thread as is used in the motif. In the past the Blonde was mostly made of a natural coloured silk; only a few in black silk and sometimes in both colours.
The Blonde was originally made in the same region as the Chantilly, among other places in Caen.
A polychrome Blonde also exsists. This was developped around 1870 in Lunéville in the neighbourghood of Morecourt in France.
