"Mache, the Masches (meshes) or holes of a net between the thread and thread" (Cotgrave).
Comptes de la Reine de Navarre, 1577. Arch. Nat. K.K. 162.
Inventory of Catherine de Médicis, Bonaffé.
Randle Holme, in The School Mistris Terms of Art for all her Ways of Sewing, has "A Samcloth, vulgarly, a Samplar."
In the Bock collection, part of which has since been bought for the Victoria and Albert Museum, are specimens of "rézeuil d'or," or network with patterns worked in with gold thread and coloured silks. Such were the richly-wrought "serviettes sur filez d'or" of Margaret of Austria.
"Autre servyette de Cabes (Cadiz) ouvrée d'or, d'argent sur fillez et bordée d'or et de gris.