. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . 31= Bone Lace. The name first given to bobbin-made laces on account of the bonesof fishes and splinters of the bonesof animals being used instead ofpins, and the bobbins being fre-quently of carved bone. Bone point is sometimes spokenof; this signifies the finest qualityof bobbin lace, for though it mightbe expected that point should meanneedle-point, it does not always doso—the word point being use
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . 31= Bone Lace. The name first given to bobbin-made laces on account of the bonesof fishes and splinters of the bonesof animals being used instead ofpins, and the bobbins being fre-quently of carved bone. Bone point is sometimes spokenof; this signifies the finest qualityof bobbin lace, for though it mightbe expected that point should meanneedle-point, it does not always doso—the word point being used bylace experts to describe a finequality of lace, whether of needle-point or bobbin lace. bdo cr 3 Htr O pn- |?8. - cr o ST « § o a o c+ i er O 5 a a CD o Brazil Lace. § A bobbin lace of coarse texture Sand feeble design, used only amongst s the natives. It resembles the bobbin 8 laces of Europe in a slight degree, jf the patterns being in the style of the gj Valenciennes and Torchons, but is * far inferior in wear, as Brazilianlace is made with cotton thread. Maceio, in the province of Alagoas, was the chief centre of the lace trade in themiddle of the nineteenth 126 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE.
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