Guipure

Guipure lace is a type of bobbin lace. It connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.

Guipure is a French word. It used to describe lace which has a gimp or thicker thread to outline the pattern, but this is no longer used.^[1]

Genoese lace was a guipure lace.^[2] Genoese lacemakers went to Malta to found the style of Maltese lace.^[3] This later inspired the style of English lace known as Bedfordshire lace.^[4]

Another guipure lace is Cluny lace, which originated in France,^[5] but spread elsewhere, such as the English lacemaking areas.^[6]