Machine lace

This is an imitation of a bobbin lace edging. But various parts are made in a different way, which shows that this is machine lace.

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The Bucks Point ground is made in a different way to bobbin lace. There are vertical threads running down the lace, and threads meeting at the stitch. But here, there are pairs cross over rather than a single thread. This means that there are triplets of threads rather than pairs.

In the footside, there are different thicknesses of thread, with a single thick passive thread, a slightly thinner edge thread, and pairs of thinner threads acting as passives.

The picots are pairs of untwisted threads. You can see how they are pulled through other threads, and not secured at all by any lace stitch.