page_title: Point de Gaze
section_title: Origins and History
hierarchical_section_title: Point de Gaze / Origins and History
caption_attribution_description: English: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.135 Needlepoint (Point de Gaze) Lace Handkerchief, 19th century. Flanders. 32.3 x 30.6 cm (12 11/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
context_page_description: Point de Gaze is a needle lace from Belgium named for the gauze-like appearance of the mesh ground. It was made from the early to mid 1800s to the 1930s.
context_section_description: Point de Gaze is a type of needlepoint lace that originated in the area of Brussels, Belgium. It was constructed from the middle of the 19th century until the 1930s. One source indicates that its manufacture started earlier, in the 1830s.
  The Schiffli machine, which used net to mimic the gauze-like texture, was able to imitate the production of hand-made Point de Gaze lace.
caption: Point de Gaze lace handkerchief, 19th century Flanders
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