CROCHET.--Lace which is made with a crochet hook, or whose pattern is so made and then appliqued on a bobbin or machine-made net. It is similar to needle-point lace, although not equal in fineness to the best examples of the latter. CROWN.--A lace whose pattern was worked on a succession of crowns, sometimes intermixed with acorns and roses. It was made first in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. A relic of this lace may still be found {36} in the "faux galon," sold for the decoration of fancy dresses and theatrical purposes. DALECARLIAN.--Lace made for their own use by the peasants of Dalecarlia, a province of Sweden. Its patterns are ancient and traditional. It is a coarse guipure lace, made of unbleached thread. DAMASCENE.--An imitation of Honiton lace, made by joining lace sprigs and lace braid with corded bars. It differs from modern point lace in that it has real Honiton sprigs, and is without needlework fillings. DARNED LACE.--A general name for lace upon a net ground, upon which the pattern is appliqued in needlework. The different laces of this kind are described under Filet Brode, Guipure d'Art and Spiderwork. DEVONSHIRE.--Lace made in Devonshire, England, and more frequently designated as Honiton. (See Honiton.) Formerly practically the whole female population of Devonshire were employed in lacemaking, and during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Belgian, French and Spanish laces were imitated in that country most successfully, as were also Venetian and Spanish needle-point, Maltese, Greek and Genoese laces. During the last century this variety in lacemaking has died out in Devonshire, and now only Honiton is made. DIAMOND.--A lace made with a stitch either worked as open or close diamonds, and used in modern point and in ancient needle-points. DIEPPE.--A fine point lace made at Dieppe, in France, resembling Valenciennes, and made with three threads instead of four. There were several kinds of lace made at Dieppe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Brussels, Mechlin, Point de Paris and Valenciennes, but the true Dieppe point was eventually restricted to two kinds, the narrow being called the Ave Maria and Poussin, the wider and double grounded, the Dentelle a la Vierge. Dieppe and Havre were formerly the two great lace centers of Normandy, manufacturing in those cities having antedated that at Alencon, but the prosperity of the lace industry in both these cities was nearly destroyed at the Revolution, and though for a time encouraged under the restored Bourbons, and patronized by Napoleon III, machine-made laces have practically driven the old Dieppe point out of the market. {37} [Illustration: Real Torchon.] [Illustration: Imitation Valenciennes.] {38}