Leaning her round white elbows on the guipure table-cloth, half-shutting those long greeny-brown Egyptian eyes of her, wreathing her long thick white neck to send a daring challenge into the face of the laughing man.
And, more ready than a juggler, he wrapped up the guipure in some blue paper and put it in Emma's hands.
She was a woman of about forty, with fine shoulders, a hook nose, a drawling voice, and on this evening she wore over her brown hair a simple guipure fichu that fell in a point at the back.
Then he called her back to show her three yards of guipure that he had lately picked up "at a sale.
The meaning of guipure is hard to connect with the present use of the word, which is very loose and undefined.
A fine silk guipure is made in the harems of Turkey, of which specimens were shown in the International Exhibition.
Guipure or passementerie made with thin silk or gilt-covered strips of parchment.
The lace produced by James Rodge and his contemporaries had large flowing guipure patterns, united by bride picotees, the latter worked in with the Brussels ground.
Guipure à bride and scalloped-border laces in the Louis XIV.
She was about forty years old, with fine shoulders, a hook nose, a drawling voice, and on this evening she wore over her brown hair a simple guipure fichu that fell in a point at the back.
As all the earliest specimens and designs for guipure were Venetian, the art was, therefore, probably an Italian invention, though an Oriental origin has sometimes been attributed to it.
Latterly, embroidered netting or laces have been called "guipure d'art.
It will be seen in a lesser degree in the Guipure laces of Milan and Genoa, but here the cramping influence of the Flemish school shows itself distinctly.
By this method of manufacture are produced to-day all of the imitation guipure laces, such as Point de Venise, Rose Point, Point de Genes, etc.
A guipure lace with a small mesh ground, and the pattern distinguished by striking scroll designs.
The different laces of this kind are described under Filet Brode, Guipure d'Art and Spiderwork.
A lace known for certain to be of Spanish origin is a coarse pillow guipure made in white thread and also of gold and silver.
Honiton guipure is now the chief form of lace made at that town.
In the early period of its manufacture it was a close-woven fabric, resembling the guipure of Genoa and Flanders, but later it resembled English point.
A fine pillow lace, a variety originally made in Belgium resembling Honiton guipure lace in design and workmanship, but worked with a finer thread and containing a greater amount of raised or relief work.
In the seventeenth century it was a French guipure lace of more delicate texture and varied design than other guipures.
There was also a guipure lace, made from aloe fiber, as well as the knotted lace now {66} known as Macrame.
This resulted from substituting the working of the true Brussels net ground, or vrai reseau, for the old guipure bar ground.
Guipure or passement, made with cartisane, which is vellum or parchment in thin strips or small rolls, covered with silk, gold thread or similar material.
It is a coarse guipure lace, made of unbleached thread.
Thus the term guipure was applied to the thread lace with guipure reliefs, and the designation has since remained to all laces without grounds, in which the patterns are united by brides.
This stitch is useful as a variation, and resembles the point de reprise of Guipure lace making.
After the lace has lain for an hour or two in the cloth, iron it if it be machine-made and if it be Irish Guipure or real point lace of any sort, pin it out.
Little wheels, set between the crochet pyramids, and described in the chapters on filet-guipure and Irish lace, complete the insertion.
I am delighted, either for window blinds or summer quilts, or material for throwing over sofas, instead of guipure and muslin.
This elegant basket is made of bamboo cane and blue satin, fastened on cardboard, and covered with guipure d'art.
The guipure pattern is worked in linen stitch and point d'esprit, the raised leaves in darning stitch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guipure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
