Schneeberg lace
Schneeberger lace is a bobbin [bobbin bobbin tape lace|tape lace|tape] lace developed around 1915 in the Königliche Klöppelmuster Schule of Schneeberg in Ore Mountains Germany. With a small number of bobbins the typical small motifs could be produced quickly.
Lia Baumeister-Jonker, Schneeberger lace expert, describes the three characteristics of Schneeberger lace as:
- A tape lace that alternates between a small tape, and a wider tape.
- Containing an outside plait.
- Containing fillings with plaits, with or without picots, leaf stitches or crescent shaped leaf stitches with picots and twisted pairs. Fillings are worked as they would be worked in Guipure lace.
The Christmas decoration known as a Schwibbogen represents the lacemakers of the region in the wood carving silhouette original style.