Craft of making lace using thread wound on bone or wooden bobbins.
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Examples for "bobbin lace"
Examples for "bobbin lace"
1They say it was a woman, Barbara Uttmann, who invented pillow lace in the 16th century.
2Bobbin or pillow lace more nearly resembles weaving.
3And I also make the pillow lace.
4She had for sale some pillow lace edging of her own manufacture, which she offered at threepence per yard.
5Doris didn't know much about Holland, even if she could make pillow lace and read French verses with a charming accent.
1They also learned to make bone lace with pillow and bobbins.
2In 1697, the Ehglish prohibited the importation of bone lace, the manufacture of Flanders.
3The women make a little bone lace.
4For the best bone lace, not under 20 yards, £5:5s.
5After much hesitation, he selected a coat and breeches of black velvet, a pearl-coloured vest, and cravat and ruffles of fine English bone lace.
6William Kempe of "Duxburrow" in 1641 left hats, hat-boxes, rich hatbands, bone laces, leather hat-cases; also ten "capps."
7Light glared through the walls, and upon the topmost point of all the palace of the bishop was balanced, its bones laced against the sky.
Translations for bone lace