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Bobbin lace arose from passementerie in the mid-16th century, probably in Flanders.
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She'll be wearing a sky blue wool crepe coat dress, with matching satin piping and passementerie at the waist and cuff.
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The Guild documented the art of passementerie.
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They were turbaned, feathered, booted, shawled, cinched, tasseled and encrusted from head to foot in braid, beads, rickrack and passementerie.
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Today, passementerie is used with clothing, such as the gold braid on military dress uniforms, and for decorating couture clothing and wedding gowns.
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Passementerie with clothing was for a long time reserved for the elites as a sign of social distinction among royalty, aristocracy, religious, and military.
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- Trimming: a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt"
- Passementerie or passementarie is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings (in French, passements) of applied braid, gold or silver cord, embroidery, colored silk, or beads for clothing or furnishings.
- Fancy edgings or trims which emphasize the shape of the curtain, such as fringe, tassels, braid, and ruffles. Plinth: A square of decorative wood installed at the corners of a window frame.
- Fancy decorative trimmings such as tassels, tiebacks and ribbon.
- (pahs-mahn-tree): Trimming, particularly embroidery or edgings applied in a random, floral, or geometric pattern.
- A term refering to trims and fabric adornments. Click here for more information.
- Lacemakers were once known as passementiers. Passement or passemayne became used to describe trimmings made of gold and silver braid. The term evolved to describe collectively many forms of twisted, woven and stitched trimmings and ornamentation.
- A collective term used to describe ornate decoration made up of a variety of things, although usually braid, tassels, with ornamental beading, etc. The decoration is usually stitched to paper or netting and then applied to the garment. See Evening Bolero.
- Fine ornamental trim of lace, beading, braid, for a hat.
