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TABLE OF THREADS SUITED TO VARIOUS
ARTICLES WORKED IN POINT LACE.

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|Caps                              |    36   "   "     |
|Collars                           |    30   "   "     |
|Couvrettes                        |    2   4   6      |
|Cravats                           |    18  30   "     |
|D’Oyleys                          |     8  10  12     |
|Dress Trimmimgs                   |    22  30   "     |
|Edgings                           |    14  30   "     |
|Handkerchiefs                     |    30  36  40     |
|Insertions, coarse                |    6   8  12      |
|   "        fine                  |    24  30   "     |
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Point lace cord runs about twelve yards to the hank.
Point lace edged braid runs thirty-six yards on cards.
Plain linen twelve yards in each hank.
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GUIPURE D’ART.
INSTRUCTIONS AND PATTERNS
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GUIPURE D’ART.
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Ancient Guipure was a lace made of thin vellum, covered
with gold, silver, or silk thread, and the word Guipure
derives its name from the silk when thus twisted round
vellum being called by that name.  In process
of time the use of vellum was discontinued, and a cotton
material replaced it.  Guipure lace was called
intelle a cartisane in England in the sixteenth
century.  Various modern laces are called Guipure,
but the word is misapplied, since Guipure lace is that
kind only where one thread is twisted round another
thread or another substance, as in the ancient Guipure
d’Art.
In every design where lace can be introduced, Guipure
d’Art will be found useful.  It looks particularly
well when mounted upon quilted silk or satin. 
The squares, when worked finely, look well as toilet-cushions,
or, if worked in coarser thread, make admirable couvrettes,
and as covers for eider-down silk quilts are very
elegant.  Guipure squares should be connected
by guipure lace, crochet, or tatting, or they may be
edged with narrow guipure lace and joined at the corners
only when placed over coloured silk or satin; thus
arranged, a sofa-cushion appears in alternate squares
of plain and lace-covered silk; a ruche of ribbon
and fall of lace to correspond completes this pretty
mounting.
Not one of the least important attractions of Guipure
d’Art is the speed with which it is worked,
and the ease with which fresh patterns are designed
by skilful workers.
GUIPURE D’ART is an imitation of the celebrated
ancient Guipure Lace, and is worked in raised and
intersected patterns upon a square network of linen
thread, Mecklenburg thread of various sizes being used
for this purpose.  The needles employed are blunt,
and have large eyes, to admit the linen thread.