filet lace

noun

a square mesh net or lace, originally knotted by hand but now copied by machine.

Origin of filet lace

1905–10; <French filet net (Old French file something spun, past participle of filer;see file¹) + -et-et

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Four to a dozen tea cloths, of filet lace or drawn work or Russian embroidery, with tiny napkins to match.
Etiquette | Emily Post
It may be plain linen hemstitched or scalloped, or it may be much embroidered and have mosaic or filet lace.
Etiquette | Emily Post
This crocheted work, if evenly done in fine thread, is quite suggestive of the Italian filet lace.
The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration | Charles Franklin Warner
There is some striking filet lace on the various altar-cloths.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence
filet lace came then, sheerly, whole yokes of it for crepe de Chine nightgowns and dainty scalloped edges for camisoles.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | Various

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