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anduly._--South American fiber-lace, made by needle in small squares, which are afterward joined together. Design very beautiful and of remarkable durability. _Needlepoint Lace._--See Point Lace. _Normandy Lace._--See Valenciennes. _Nottingham._--A general term including all the machine-made laces turned out in that great lace-producing center of England. _Oriental Lace._--Really an embroidery, being produced on the Schiffli machine, the pattern being then either cut or eaten out. Also applied to point d'Arabe and certain filet effects. _Oyah Lace._--A crocheted guipure shown in ornate patterns. _Passementerie._--A decorative edging or trimming, especially gimp or braid. _Picots._--Infinitesimal loops on brides and other strands. _Pillow Lace (Bobbin Lace)._--Made on a pillow with bobbins and pins. Machine-made imitations retain the name. _Plauen._--Applied to all laces emanating from that section of Saxony and including imitations of nearly all point laces, which are embroidered on a wool ground, this being afterward dissolved in acid and the cotton or silk design left intact. _Point de Gaze._--Fine gauze-like needle-lace. _Point d'Irelande._--Coarse machine lace, made in imitation of real Venetian point. _Point de Milan._--A variety of guipure, having a ground of small meshes, and a pattern consisting of bold, flowing scroll devices. _Point de Paris._--A variety of cheap machine lace, cotton, of simple design. _Point Kant._--Flemish pillow lace, with a net ground and the design running largely to "pot" effects--pot lace. _Point Lace._--Lace made by hand with needle and single thread. Needlepoint the same. Point d'Alencon, point de Venise, etc., are all variations of point lace and will be found classified under their initials. _Point Plat._--Point lace without raised design. _Renaissance._--Modern lace, made of narrow tape or braid formed into patterns, held together by brides, the brides forming subsidiary designs. Battenberg is the same thing. _Repousse._--Applied to the design, being a pattern that has the effect of being stamped in. _Rococo._--Italian lace, bearing the rococo design. _Rose Point._--See Venetian point. _Seaming Lace._--Narrow, openwork insertion.
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