Broderie Anglaise and Eyelet: Magic words you need when shopping, searching, buying or Selling
My Singaporean friend Yenny was wearing a wonderful red dress.
She said, "It's loose and comfortable and never creases."
I commented, "It's what we call broderie Anglaise, in England, usually sold white. The words are French for English embroidery. The fabric used to be cheap, folksy. But then it got hard to find and fashionable and expensive. Maybe it's getting easy to find and affordable again. Where did you get it?"
Yenny replied: "I bought it in Thailand. There's lots of it there. They call it eyelet."
Red eyelet dress from Shein 28 Singapore dollars.
On ebay I found this:
Useful Websites
Background information and a couple of photos in
Lots more photos in Wikimedia
If you associate white broderie Anglaise (called whitework) with clothes which are old-fashioned, childish or folksy, consider buying or dyeing white clothes red. Or any other colour.
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