A crocheted lace fabric that imitates true filet lace, built from a grid-like mesh of chain stitches with selected mesh squares filled in using double crochet blocks to form a picture or motif against the open mesh background, traditionally worked in fine mercerized cotton thread. The technique is thought to derive from net-mending methods used by fishermen, later adapted by their families into a decorative craft; the term filet crochet is recorded from around 1912, though the underlying technique, then called square crochet, appears in crochet instructions from decades earlier.
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OriginBelieved to derive from fishermen's net-mending technique; the name filet crochet is recorded from around 1912, with the underlying square-crochet technique documented earlier. 1 Distinguishing Technique or ResultA grid mesh of chain and double crochet stitches is worked so that filled squares (blocks) against open squares (spaces) form a picture or motif, read like a graph. 1 Connections
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Tools Used
Crochet Hook is used in Filet Crochet Pattern.
Sources
1. Filet Crochet (Wikipedia)
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Filet crochet is a type of crocheted fabric that imitates filet lace.
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