I imagine it is lace made with machine-made ground, or "gauze".  (gaze 
in French).  Workers only had to make the motifs to apply to the gauze...

Clay

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Machine-made net is not quite that early (1779).  The earliest machine net
was about 50-60 years later.

Patty

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