the mode of working.

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

|----------------------------------|-------------------|
|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 " |
|----------------------------------|-------------------|

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

IN

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 attra