History of Lace by Mrs. Bury Palliser

3. Gueuse.--A thread lace, which owed to its simplicity {34}the name it

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bore. The ground was network, the flowers a loose, thick thread, worked in on the pillow. Gueuse was formerly an article of extensive consumption in France, but, from the beginning of the last century, little used save by the lower classes. Many old persons may still remember the term, "beggars' lace."

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