A handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins.
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1 They say it was a woman, Barbara Uttmann, who invented pillow lace in the 16th century.
2 Bobbin or pillow lace more nearly resembles weaving.
3 And I also make the pillow lace .
4 She had for sale some pillow lace edging of her own manufacture, which she offered at threepence per yard.
5 Doris didn't know much about Holland, even if she could make pillow lace and read French verses with a charming accent.
6 Miss Arabella made beautiful pillow lace , and sometimes the grand ladies came in carriages and paid her ever so much money for it.
7 Oh, French and a little Latin, and she was reading history and "Paradise Lost," but she didn't like sums, and she could make pillow lace .
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