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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Alencon lace, Antwerp lace, Applique lace, Argentan lace, Argentella, Armenian needlelace, Arras lace, Ave Maria lace, Barbara Uthmann, Battenberg lace, Binche lace, Blonde lace, Bobbin lace, Broderie Anglaise, Broomstick lace, Brussels lace, Bucks point lace, Buratto, Cambric, Carrickmacross lace, Chantilly lace, Chemical lace, Crocheted lace, Doily, Faroese shawl, Federico de Vinciolo, Filet lace, Freehand lace, Giovanna Dandolo, Hairpin lace, Halas lace, Hollie Point, Irish lace, Kenmare lace, Lacemaking in Croatia, Lace knitting, Lace school, Lefkaritika, Limerick lace, Mechlin lace, Morosina Morosini-Grimani, Mundillo, Nanduti, Needlerun net, Needle lace, Orenburg shawl, Pag lace, Passementerie, Point de France, Point de Gaze, Point de Venise, Punto a groppo, Punto in Aria, Reticella, Rosa Elena Egipciaco, Scranton Lace Company, Tambour lace, Tatting, Teneriffe lace, The Lace Guild, Torchon lace, Tonder lace, Valenciennes lace, Yak lace, Youghal lace. Excerpt: Cambric (, or ), or batiste, one of the finest and most dense kinds of cloth, is a lightweight plain weave cloth, originally from Cambrai, woven in greige, then bleached and piece-dyed, often glazed or calendered. Initially made of linen (flax), then cotton in the 19th century, it is also called batiste. Cambric is used for linens, shirtings, handkerchieves and as fabric for lace and needlework. Cambric was originally a kind of fine white plain-weave linen cloth made at or near Cambrai. The word comes from Kameryk or Kamerijk, the Flemish name of Cambrai, which became part of France in 1677. The word is attested since 1530. It is a synonym of the French word batiste, itself attested since 1590. Batiste itself comes from the Picard batiche, attested since 1401, derivation derived from the old French battre for bowing wool. The modern form batiste or baptiste comes from a popular merge with the surname Baptiste, pronounced Batisse, as indicated by the use of the expressions thoile batiche (1499) and toile de baptiste (1536) for the same fabric. The alleged invention of the fabric, around 1300, by a weaver called Baptiste or Jean-Baptiste Cambray or Chambray (see Photo right), from the village of Castaing in the peerage of Marcoing, near Cambrai, has no historic ground. Cambric was a finer quality and more expensive than lawn (from the French laune, initially a plain-weave linen fabric from the city of Laon in France). Denoting a geographic origin from the city of Cambrai or its surroundings (Cambresis in French), cambric is an exact equivalent of the French cambresine (), a very fine, almost sheer white linen plain-weave fabric, to be distinguished from cambrasine, a fabric comparable to the French lawn despite its foreign origin. Cambric is also close to chambray ( from a French regional variant of Cambrai, a name which "also comes from Cambrai, the French city, where the material was originally made of linen yarn." Chambray (also spelled chambrai) appears in North A
