LACE AND LACE-MAKING. 



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Lace consists of two parts: a network called the ground, and the 

 pattern traced upon it, sometimes called the flower, or gimp (Fig. 1). 

 In modern lace we may easily distinguish the ground and pattern, 

 but in the older laces the flowers are not wrought upon a network 



Fig. 2. Honiton Guipuee. 



ground, but are connected by ii'regular threads, overcast with button- 

 hole stitch, and sometimes fringed with loops. These connecting- 

 threads, called " brides,'''' are sho-wn in Fig. 2. 



The network ground is known by the French term reseaii. It 

 is sometimes called entoilage, on account of its containing the toile 



