Metal lace

The designs can be worked on a textile ground, or the lace can completely be made from metallic threads.

It is mainly used as an embellishment for military uniforms, fashionable, ceremonial and theatrical dress, and ecclesiastical textiles.

[1] Metal lace, including gold and silver point de Venise, was produced in Italy until the 15th century, when high taxation and sumptuary laws led to textile threads such as linen replacing the use of metal.

[6] A type of die stamped metal "lace" was produced in the 19th and 20th century as a trimming for coffins.

[7] Coffin lace became a major industry in Birmingham, where its manufacture in the 1860s could use up to 70 tons of tin per year.