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Not Vintage, but I wanted to share this
I visited the Gainesville FL Crochet Reef @ University of Florida - Marston Science Library - May 9, 2011 and took these pictures.  Great exhibit!
Read about it: http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/crochetreef

Astarte, in the Qustions and Answers section of an 1884 magazine, Little Folks  A Magazine for the Young,
sends the following directions, in answer to W. M.’s question as to
how to make a pair of baby’s woollen shoes, suitable for a bazaar:—

“One ounce of white Berlin wool.

A chain of thirty-four stitches;

double-crochet into this for […]

Crochet guipure lace (fig. 459).—This charming little lace makes a very good substitute for real guipure. It can be made on a row of trebles, just as well as on point lace braid, or on a mignardise, after you have raised the picots of it by single and chain stitches.
 
Fig. 459. Crochet guipure lace.
Materials: […]

 
Fig. 458. Lace made on point lace braid.
Materials: Fil d’Alsace D.M.C Nos. 30 to 50, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 80, white[A] and Point Lace braid.
In this first round you make: 1 chain, 1 half-treble, 12 trebles *, 1 half-treble, 1 chain, 1 single on the 4th chain; 3 chain, 1 single on the […]

 
Fig. 457. Fringe made with lacet or soutache (braid).
Materials: Lacet D.M.C No. 4 or Soutache D.M.C NO. 2½ in red. Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 10. Fil à pointer D.M.C Nos. 10 to 30, écru.[A]
Begin with a foundation chain, in coarse écru twist, the light stitch in the middle of the heading of […]

 
Source:  Home Needlework, December, 1915