Filet-Guipure Lace is a kind of needlework included netting and stitching decorating seams and figures with the help of a needle. It is one of the earliest types of lace. The other terms of Filet-Guipure Lace may be Darned Netting, Darned Lace or Spider Work. A shuttle, a core, a wooden rectangular embroidery frame and an embroidery needle are used for Filet-Guipure Lace manufacturing. The genesis of netting was in Neolithic (VI-III century B.C.). Most of primitive men knew a prosaic fishing-net, mesh bags and similar household goods. The filet (from French �filet� means �grid�), i.e. embroidery on a netting, was known in the different countries already in a deep antiquity, and it is difficult to define a native land of this work. The ancient peoples living in woods engaging by a hunt were able to entwine a network from strings, and the inhabitants of the seaside countries made fishing networks not worse than we do. Initially primitive filet works was gradually improved. In due course in the various countries began to occur graceful filet works. In Persia there are ancient things of silk filet with gold and silver embroidery. There are plenty of emarginate filet among ancient works in Italy.

Guipure (from French �guipure�) is a kind of lace with embossed pattern. In contradistinction to simple filet, Filet-Guipure Lace fills almost whole netting space with a pattern. And more various stitches are used and create an openwork lace (i.e. impression of more thin, transparent, seen through embroidery). It is a lot of ancient works in filet-guipure technique was kept in France and Germany. A heyday of filet lace comes about the epoch of Revival (XIV-XVI centuries). In the beginning of XX century Filet-Guipure Lace was also very fashionable and was made aplenty. A lot of insertion laces for covers, cloths, napkins and curtains were made.

Filet-Guipure Lace is a stitchcraft, traditional for Volga Region in Russia. N.Tazova told about uprise of Filet-Guipure in Russia: �For the first time in Russia Filet-Guipure Lace has appeared under Moscow at the end of the XVII century. This history is concerned with Peter the First� At one time there was a nunnery in the village Khotkovo under Moscow. The nuns had some land, did small-scale housekeeping, but bent the knee more and made bows. Once king Peter has arrived there, he has had a look at their life, and has become angry: �Why are you dally and eat bread for nothing? Stop it! Since today you will be worked!� And he has written for two mistresses of needlework from Holland, which began to train the nuns to make Filet-Guipure Lace. And from this nunnery it has expanded all Russia round. This needlework has especially circulated at our place in Volga Region. Maybe because networks for fishing was netted in villages here lately�. Due to the vigorous activity of the National Master N.Tazova Filet-Guipure Lace not only was kept in Volga Region, but also has got distinguishing features of the Samara Lace School, and consequently can be quite naturally named �Samara Guipure�.