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title: "Battenberg lace"
description: "Battenberg lace is a tape lace in which a machine-made tape is shaped into a design and joined with needle-made bars and fillings."
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published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
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# Battenberg lace

*Battenberg lace is a tape lace in which a machine-made tape is shaped into a design and joined with needle-made bars and fillings.*

In tape laces such as Battenberg, a woven tape is tacked onto a pattern along its lines, folded around the curves, and the spaces are filled with needle-made stitches. The technique, popular in the late nineteenth century, imitated older and costlier [needle laces](https://teazle.art/glossary/needle-lace.md).


## Sources

1. [Battenberg lace (AAT 300256578)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300256578). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Battenberg lace (Q4869715)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4869715). Wikidata

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