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title: "Chantilly lace"
description: "Chantilly lace is a fine bobbin lace, usually black silk, with floral designs outlined in a thicker thread on a delicate net ground."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/chantilly-lace
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Chantilly lace

*Chantilly lace is a fine bobbin lace, usually black silk, with floral designs outlined in a thicker thread on a delicate net ground.*

Chantilly lace is named after the town north of Paris where it was made. It is a bobbin lace whose motifs are outlined with a flat, heavier thread on a light ground, and it is especially associated with black silk shawls, veils and evening dress of the nineteenth century.


## Sources

1. [Chantilly lace (AAT 300264619)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300264619). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Chantilly lace (Q2718962)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2718962). Wikidata

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