bobbin lace

noun

1. lace made by hand with bobbins of thread, the thread being twisted around pins stuck into a pattern placed on a pillow or pad.

bobbin lace

noun

1. lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace

Example Sentences

You get to peek over the lacemaker’s shoulder: She is making bobbin lace, one of the most expensive commodities of early modern Europe.

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When the bands were to serve as borders they would have a dentated edging added to them; this edging might be made of either needlepoint or bobbin lace.

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She gossips along, and scribbles, with the indefatigable finger of a maker of bobbin lace, or a German knitter of stockings.

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Bone Lace.—An obsolete term once given to Honiton bobbin lace.

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At a considerable distance from her, a small, middle-aged woman in grey sat in a high chair, bending forward over the little green pillow on which she was making bobbin lace.

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