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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