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Encyclopedia > Pottenkant

Antwerp lace, also known as Antwerp Pot Lace, Pottenkant or Potten Kant, is a bobbin lace distinguished by sylized flower pot motifs on a six point star ground. In the 17th century an estimated 50% of the population of Antwerp was involved in lace making. Making bobbin lace Bobbin lace is a delicate lace that uses wound spools of thread (the bobbins) to weave together the shapes in the lace. ... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old part of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and is home to a number of triptychs by the Belgian painter, Rubens. ...


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Lace types
Needle Punto in Aria | Point de Venise | Point de France | Alençon | Argentan | Argentella | Hollie Point | Point de Gaze | Youghal | Limerick
Embroidered: Reticella | Buratto | Filet/Lacis | Tambour | Teneriffe | Needlerun Net
Cut Work: Broderie Anglaise | Carrickmacross
Bobbin Ancient: Antwerp | Pottenkant | Ecclesiastical | Freehand | Torchon
Continental: Binche | Flanders | Mechlin | Paris | Valenciennes
Point ground: Bayeux | Blonde | Bucks point | Chantilly | Tønder | Beveren | Lille
Guipure: Genoese | Venetian | Bedfordshire | Cluny | Maltese
Part laces: Honiton | Brugges | Brussels
Tape: Milanese | Flemish | Russian | Peasant
Tape:  Mezzopunto | Princess | Renaissance | Romanian point
Knotted:  Macramé | Tatting
Crocheted Irish crochet | Hairpin | Filet Crochet
Knitted:  Shetland | Estonian | Icelandic | Danish | German
Machine-made:  Warp Knit | Leavers | Pusher | Barmen | Curtain Machine | Chemical
Hand Finished: Hand-run Gimps

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Zo werd het "pottenkant" wat betekende: grove kloskant met doorlopende draden.
In 1977 werd nog pottenkant vervaardigd te Kieldrecht in België.
Schoten ligt dicht tegen Antwerpen en niettegenstaande "pottenkant" een typische Antwerpse kantsoort was, was "pot" toch niet zo geschikt als naam voor een groep.
Cultuurwijs - Friesland in kant (439 words)
Voor het eerst is in de tentoonstelling de ontwikkeling te zien van de kleine Duitse muts naar de floddermuts, waarvoor veel minder kant nodig was.
De kant die voor die mutsen werd gebruikt was vaak modieus, van Antwerpse pottenkant tot de verfijnde Biedermeier boeketjes in de Rijsselse kanten.
Daarnaast had men in Friesland tot in de 20ste eeuw een voorliefde voor de speciale mutsenkanten uit België met een klassiek symmetrisch patroon.Transparante geborduurde batist en tule werden bij feestelijke gelegenheden gebruikt voor de halsdoeken of tipdoeken en sierschorten.
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