bobbin lace

American  

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.

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bobbin lace British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The large courtyard was sunlit and humming with busyness, as twelve women sat at large frames making bobbin lace.

From Literature

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

From New York Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg