The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ... (1882)
Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 245
are now commenced. In ancient designsonly one stitch, Point de Toile or the plain darning stitch,was used for the Guipure, not raised from the surface,and this description of lace is illustrated in Fig. 431, p. 233,where the darned meshes form a conventional rose and leafpattern connected together… … JTia. 432. Guipure dArt—Guipuke en Relief. with Point dEspvit, the thick parts of the pattern inPoint de Toile, and the relief parts in Point de Reprise.The varieties of stitches that are now used in GuipuredArt are of modern origin : they are, however, chieflycopied from old Needle Point laces,…
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