Lacework shares a root with lasso — both from Latin for "noose" — because lace was originally just a cord, before the word was elevated to describe one of the world's most exquisite textiles.
Decorative fabric made by looping, twisting, or knitting threads into intricate open patterns; articles or designs made of or resembling lace.
A compound of lace (from Old French laz, las, a cord, string, snare, from Latin laqueus, a noose, snare) + work (from Old English weorc, labor, activity). Lacework is literally work made of lace or resembling lace patterns. Key roots: laqueus (Latin: "noose, snare, trap").
Lace shares its root with lasso — both from Latin laqueus (noose, snare). A lace was originally a cord or string used for fastening (as in shoelace), and the delicate fabric we call lace gets its name because it was made of interlaced threads. Fine lacework was so valuable in the 16th-17th centuries that some European countries passed