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title: "Broderie anglaise"
description: "Broderie anglaise is white embroidery made of eyelets, small holes cut or punched and edged with buttonhole or overcast stitches, usually in floral patterns."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/broderie-anglaise
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Broderie anglaise

*Broderie anglaise is white embroidery made of eyelets, small holes cut or punched and edged with buttonhole or overcast stitches, usually in floral patterns.*

Broderie anglaise, “English embroidery”, is a form of [whitework](https://teazle.art/glossary/whitework.md). Patterns of round and oval eyelets, edged with stitches and set among satin-stitched leaves, are worked on white cotton or linen. It was hugely popular for nineteenth-century underwear and children’s clothes, and is now made mostly by machine.


## Sources

1. [Broderie anglaise (AAT 300264695)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300264695). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Broderie anglaise (Q4972970)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972970). Wikidata

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