schifflin.
/ˈʃɪfli/ Used attributively to designate (a) a type of embroidery machine with diagonal shuttles which work on fabric stretched on a movable frame; (b) a style of fine embroidery done on such a machine. Also occasionally absol. and adverbially, as schiffli embroidered.
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1892 G. S. Cole Compl. Dict. Dry Goods (rev. ed.) 123 In 1875 a machine, called the ‘Schiffli’, was invented and worked by steam... The embroideries made by this machine are usually known as ‘Schiffli goods’.
1923 E. Dyer Textile Fabrics x. 164 Plauen, Schiffli, and burnt laces all refer to laces made on the Schiffli machine.
1946 Bendure & Pfeiffer America's Fabrics xiii. 404 A schiffli machine is not a lace machine but an embroidery machine.
1946 Bendure & Pfeiffer America's Fabrics xiii. 407 The schiffli can make many lace patterns.
1960 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 4) 125 Schiffli Embroidery Machine, an embroidery machine consisting of a multiplicity of lockstitch sewing elements working on a basic net or fabric which is attached to a frame which is movable vertically and horizontally according to the requirements of the pattern.
1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 1288 Ensemble features authentic schiffli embroidery on the entire top of the bedspread.
1986 Meredith (New Hampsh.) News 9 July 19/2 The maid of honor..wore a gown of maize matte taffeta with scalloped schiffli embroidered bodice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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