Bride picotée

Bride picotée (Breedpee-koh-tay) is an old type of point lace that consists of a large mesh or foundation surrounded by small picots. The lace gets its alternative names, Bride épinglé and Bride boucle, from the use of pins pricked into the parchment pattern to form picots or boucles. The "bride picotée" was a distinctive specialty of Point d'Argentan, which may be a vestige of early Venetian lace-making techniques.