History of Lace by Mrs. Bury Palliser
6. Point double, also called point de Paris and point des champs: point
double, because it required double the number of threads used in the single
ground; des champs, from its being made in the country.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- CHAPTER I. Ch.2
- 2. Bisette.--A narrow, coarse thread pillow lace of three qualities, made Ch.3
- 3. Gueuse.--A thread lace, which owed to its simplicity {34}the name it Ch.4
- 4. Campane.[104]--A white, narrow, fine, thread pillow edging, used to sew Ch.5
- 5. Mignonette.[107]--A light, fine, pillow lace, called blonde de Ch.6
- 6. Point double, also called point de Paris and point des champs: point Ch.7
- 7. Valenciennes.--See Chapter XV. Ch.8
- 8. Mechlin.--All the laces of Flanders, with the exception of those of Ch.9
- 10. Guipure. Ch.10
- 1. Punto a reticella.[168]--Made either by drawing the threads of the Ch.11
- 4. Punto in aria.[171]--Worked on a parchment pattern, the flowers Ch.12
- 5. Punto tagliato a fogliami.[172]--The richest and most complicated of all Ch.13
- 7. Punto a maglia quadra.--Lacis; square netting,[178] the modano of the Ch.14
- 8. Burato.--The word means a stiff cloth or canvas (_toille clere_ of Ch.15
- 9. Punto tirato--Drawn work.[181] Fig. 25 is a lace ground {54}made by Ch.16
- introduction of it into my humble parish in Scotland, but on inquiry I was Ch.17
- 5. Fonneuse (grondwerkes), is charged with the open work (jours) in the Ch.18
- 6. Jointeuse, or attacheuse (lashwerkes), unites the different sections of Ch.19
- 7. Striqueuse, or appliqueuse (strikes), is charged with the sewing Ch.20
- introduction of bobbin net, the demand for blonde, on the contrary, had a Ch.21
- 1596. The fashion continued to the end of the eighteenth century. Ch.22