The fond or toilé of this lace is partly made of bobbin-made tape; on this is raised work, and gimps as well as buttonhole-stitched cordonnets of different dimensions outline and accentuate the rounded serrations and inner portions of the conventional foliage forms, into which are introduced many varieties of modes. 4 ft. 6½ in. _Spanish, 17th century_] [Illustration: PLATE LIV. TWO SPECIMENS OF NEEDLE-POINT RAISED LACE, CALLED SPANISH ROSE-POINT (SLIGHTLY REDUCED IN SIZE) This fond is partly of bobbin-made tape: on this is raised work of gimp and various cordonnets buttonhole stitched and edged with loops. These latter, from their sort of caterpillar effect, originate the fanciful name sometimes given of caterpillar point _Spanish, 17th century_] [Illustration: PLATE LV. TWO EXAMPLES OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE No. 1 is of silk needle-point lace with cordonnet, buttonholed in different sizes. This is a small portion, actual size, of the lace used to embellish the Jewish talith or silk mantle or scarf worn at prayers. _Venetian, 17th century_ No. 2. Border of needle-point lace sometimes called mezzo-punto, as fine bobbin-made tape or braid is used to outline the pattern, two or three varieties of needle fillings are wrought within the tape forms. 19 in. _17th century_] [Illustration: PLATE LVI. CAP OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE À RÉSEAU The design consists of a waved open ornamental riband device crossing a spray of conventional flowers. This lace may be distinguished from Alençon by the use of a single thread instead of a buttonholed stitch in the cordonnet as well as by the make and lay of the meshed ground, point de Venise à réseau. The style of the design is borrowed from the French of the latter part of the 17th century. 2 ft. 8 in. × 6 in. _Venetian, late 17th century_] [Illustration: PLATE LVII. A BORDER OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE, VENETIAN POINT À RÉSEAU The leading masses of the pattern undulate, and between the undulations are either conventional leaves or flowers filled in with simple diaper modes and more openly arranged brides picotées. 3 ft. 5 in. _Venetian, late 17th century_] [Illustration: PLATE LVIII. TWO EXAMPLES OF VENETIAN POINT À RÉSEAU No. 1. Needle-point lace usually called Venetian point à réseau. The pattern entirely covers the lace and is of conventional floral type: the fillings are very varied. This lace is not Venetian in design, and was probably made at Sedan. 6 ft. 5 in. _Sedan, early 18th century_ No. 2 is a beautiful fragment, actual size, of Venetian point à réseau. _Venice, late 17th century_] [Illustration: PLATE LIX. A BORDER OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE, POSSIBLY VENETIAN, THOUGH THE STYLE IS FRENCH The pattern is of leafy scrolls and conventional flowers well marked, enriched with light fillings and outlined with cordonnet of fine buttonhole stitching. The ground is of buttonholed brides arranged into hexagons strongly suggestive of Point d'Argentan. 6 ft. 6 in.