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Meanings of bone lace in English

Portuguese
rendas de bilros
Spanish
encaje de bolillos
Catalan
puntes de coixí
Wikidata

Craft of making lace using thread wound on bone or wooden bobbins.

        rendas de bilros
        Usage of bone lace in English
        1
        They also learned to make bone lace with pillow and bobbins.
        Customs and Fashions in Old New England
        2
        In 1697, the Ehglish prohibited the importation of bone lace, the manufacture of Flanders.
        An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
        3
        The women make a little bone lace.
        Rides on Railways
        4
        For the best bone lace, not under 20 yards, £5:5s.
        Life of Adam Smith
        5
        After much hesitation, he selected a coat and breeches of black velvet, a pearl-coloured vest, and cravat and ruffles of fine English bone lace.
        The Maid of Maiden Lane
        6
        William Kempe of "Duxburrow" in 1641 left hats, hat-boxes, rich hatbands, bone laces, leather hat-cases; also ten "capps."
        Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
        7
        Light glared through the walls, and upon the topmost point of all the palace of the bishop was balanced, its bones laced against the sky.
        The Happy Foreigner