Cutwork, drawnwork or fagoting?

[MagsRags]

Here's the dress

And here's a closeup of the fabric

I started out with cutwork in my head, but after doing a bit of research on my own, I think it's drawnwork: "open-work embroidery made by removing certain threads of a fabric and interlacing remaining threads with embroidery stitches... wide drawn work sometimes called fagoting."(from Mary Brooks Picken's Dictionary of Costume & Fashion). Do you agree?

 

[BijouVintage]

yeah, not cutwork, it does look more like openwork

 

[joules]

I'm going with drawnwork...

 

[MagsRags]

Uh oh! Openwork fits too!
"embroidery with open spaces forming part of the design; made by drawing, cutting or pulling aside threads of fabric".
There seems to be some overlap here in the terms.
:damnit:

 

[BijouVintage]

maybe they are both acceptable terms?

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

It's not pulled threads, drawn work or any of the others because it's not fabric that's been hand-worked after manufacture, it was machine made with that open weave so I'd call it openwork as Beth said.

It would do your head in to hand-work all that fabric!

Nicole

 

[MagsRags]

So the difference between openwork and drawnwork is that openwork is done during the making of the cloth and drawnwork afterward?

 

[joules]

I believe it was manufactured to mimic the look of a handwork treatment.

 

[MyVintageCocktail]

It would do your head in to hand-work all that fabric!

not to mention it would do your hands in, too!

 

[Linn]

I'll show the whole dress on another thread, but I believe this is an example of openwork, as well.

Linn