{{short description|Type of bobbin lace in which motifs are connected by bars or plaits}} [[File:Guipure.jpg|thumb|right|Example of Guipure lace with a Torchon edge]] [[File:Cunningham_Lace,_advert,_1907,_irish_International_Exhibition.png|thumb|Cunningham Lace, advert, 1907, Irish International Exhibition]] '''Guipure''' lace is a type of bobbin lace. It connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
Guipure is a French word. It used to describe lace which has a gimp or thicker thread to outline the pattern, but this is no longer used.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pillow Lace|isbn=0-903585-10-3|author=Elizabeth Mincoffr |date=1981 |publisher=Ruth Bean}}</ref>
Genoese lace was a guipure lace.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lacetypes.com/italy.html | title=Bobbin Lace: Genoese, Milanese, Cantú | author=Leader, Jean E. | access-date=26 July 2022 }}</ref> Genoese lacemakers went to Malta to found the style of Maltese lace.<ref name=crafts>{{cite web| url=https://vassallohistory.wordpress.com/maltese-crafts/ |title=Maltese Crafts |date=18 April 2013 |publisher=VassaloMalta| access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref> This later inspired the style of English lace known as Bedfordshire lace.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Lace|isbn=0-486-24742-2|author=Mrs. Bury Palliser |date=January 1984 |publisher=Dover Publications, Inc| page=392}}</ref>
Another guipure lace is Cluny lace, which originated in France,<ref>{{cite web|title=Bobbin Lace: France |url=https://www.lacetypes.com/franceB.html|author=Leader, Jean E.|access-date=26 July 2022}}</ref> but spread elsewhere, such as the English lacemaking areas.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Identification of Lace|author=Pat Earnshaw|date=1980 |publisher=Shire Publications|isbn=0-85263-484-6|page=107 }}</ref>
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Category:Bobbin lace