In the distance, snowcapped peaks undulated like a strip of rickrack.
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From Technicolor rickrack to '70s knit chevrons, these crocheted pieces are more disco fiend than flower child.
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The set, a brightly decorated partial house festooned with rickrack and ball fringe, was inspired by her real-life West Village apartment.
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Mother Nature does not know more patterns than Justin Peck does: circles and spirals and triangles and grids and arrows and rickrack and pearls on a string.
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Other Gossip: • The fact that Brianna saw Claire's painstaking blue ensemble last season and still chose that rickrack Hobbit bodice (a genius bit of insufficient costuming) was the first red flag about how ill-prepared she was.
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Excited by the prospect of a new venture, she searched online for dress patterns from the sixties and seventies, many of them for girls, and had them remade for herself: a mint-green sailor's dress with black rickrack trim; a pinafore in gray calico.
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Things that are "so Gucci" right now include furry loafers, not furry loafers, dresses in Jordan Almonds colors, sheer maxi-dresses, pussy bows, low-heeled loafers, berets, crochet, intense gold, watercolor roses, pineapples, sweater vests, trompe l'oeil ribbons, a certain shade of pink, rickrack trim, and big glasses frames.
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Rickrack was also stitched into lace elements, which were then used to decorate bedding and other home linens. Between the 1890s and 1910s, rickrack experienced a decrease in popularity. During the 1910s, rickrack experienced a resurgence in popularity, and American manufacturers began producing rickrack to supply to the domestic market. Among other uses, this rickrack was incorporated into crocheted lace.
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19th century industrial braiding machine creating rickrack. Museum of Crafts and Industry, St. Etienne, France. In the 1860s, rickrack was known as "waved crocket braid" or "waved lacet braid". During the 1890s, American home sewists used imported European rickrack as decorative edgings for dresses, aprons, and lingerie.
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Red and cream-colored rickrack embellish this handmade country style half- apron made from cotton calico prints. Rickrack is a flat piece of braided trim, shaped like a zigzag. It is used as a decorative element in clothes or curtains. Before the prevalence of sewing machines and overlockers, rickrack was used to provide a finished edge to fabric, and its popularity was in part due to its sturdiness and ability to stand up to harsh washing conditions.
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There were only a few woven Gallagher and Seaton labels, tangled in a snarled mass of thread and bias binding and rickrack braid in her workbasket.
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The squaw dress could be either one or two pieces, with a two piece "dress" consisting of a skirt and a blouse. They were made with cotton or calico print. The skirt part of the dress is pleated, gathered or fully gathered with three-tiers. The dresses were often colorful and incorporated rickrack as well.
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Books of designs, such as Nufashond Rick Rack Book, helped to popularize the craft. In America in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, rickrack was used to decorate feed sack dresses. These dresses were worn as everyday attire, and were constructed from the brightly colored and patterned fabric bags that animal feed, flour, and other goods were shipped in.
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Rickrack is produced using a variety of fibers, including cotton, polyester, wool, and metallic fibers, and is sold in a variety of sizes and colors. Rickrack's popularity peaked in the 1970s and is associated with the Little House on the Prairie. Several designs of formal and up-market girls' dresses with it on as a decoration became popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
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