Craft of making lace using thread wound on bone or wooden bobbins.
1 They also learned to make bone lace with pillow and bobbins.
2 In 1697, the Ehglish prohibited the importation of bone lace , the manufacture of Flanders.
3 The women make a little bone lace .
4 For the best bone lace , not under 20 yards, £5:5s.
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 .
6 William Kempe of "Duxburrow" in 1641 left hats, hat-boxes, rich hatbands, bone laces , leather hat-cases; also ten "capps."
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.
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