Guipure.—(Louis XIV.)
In that class called by the lace-makers "tape guipure," the outline of the flowers is formed by a pillow or handmade braid about the eighth of an inch in width (Fig. 19).
The term guipure is now so extensively applied it is difficult to give a limit to its meaning. We can only define it as lace where the flowers are either joined by "brides," or large coarse stitches, or lace that has no ground at all. The modern Honiton and Maltese are guipures, so is the Venetian point.
Fig. 19.
Tape Guipure, Bobbin-made.—(Genoa.)
Most of these laces are enumerated in a jeu d'esprit, entitled "La Révolte des Passemens," published at Paris in 1661.[[134]]
In consequence of a sumptuary edict against luxury in apparel, Mesdames les Broderies—
"Les Poinctes, Dentelles, Passemens