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The modern Honiton and Maltese are guipures, and so is Venetian point.

From Lace, Its Origin and History by Goldenberg, Samuel L.

In the seventeenth century it was a French guipure lace of more delicate texture and varied design than other guipures.

From Lace, Its Origin and History by Goldenberg, Samuel L.

Later, Brussels borrowed the hand-made grounds of France and Venice, and still later England copied Brussels, the guipures of Flanders, and the ground and style of Lille!

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Lowes, Emily Leigh

Old portraits of stern ancestors cramped in their doublets, or Duchesses de Rosas, with pale faces, sad countenances, buried in their collars whose guipures have been limned by Velasquez or Claude Coëllo.

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri

Italy adapted the Flemish pillow-lace, and produced Genoese and Milanese guipures, in addition to the coarse imitation of Reticella which she now made by plaiting threads on the pillow.

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Lowes, Emily Leigh