. 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 . e. The name given to old Flemish laces made with bobbins, to distinguish themfrom old needle-point Flanders lace. Hainault Lace. Brussels lace was made in Hainault during the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies, also a Valenciennes lace at Binche, a town of Hainault. These aredescribed under their various headings. Hamburg Point. A point lace made at Hamburg by the French Protestant refugees after t
. 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 . e. The name given to old Flemish laces made with bobbins, to distinguish themfrom old needle-point Flanders lace. Hainault Lace. Brussels lace was made in Hainault during the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies, also a Valenciennes lace at Binche, a town of Hainault. These aredescribed under their various headings. Hamburg Point. A point lace made at Hamburg by the French Protestant refugees after therevocation of the Edict of Nantes. It is described under German A local name for Swedish or Holy Lace. A needle-point lace worked in the Middle Ages, the subject of the patternbeing taken from Holy name Hollie is a corrup-tion of Holy Point, and is some-times used to denote any Churchlaces, whether formed of drawnor cut work, darned netting (thetrue Hollie Lace) or needle-point,provided the subject is a c • . i Hollie or Holy Point, formerly made for Church use only, but ocripturai one. since the Reformation used for lay purposes ; eighteenth ?|m, ? A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 167 The wearing of Hollie Point was not thought of till after the Reformation,when the Puritans used, for lay purposes, many things that had belonged hithertoexclusively to the Church. The bearing cloth or mantle, used to cover a childwhen carried to its christening, together with its christening cap and shirt, withbib and mittens, which formed the christening suit, were frequently of Hollie subjects as the Tree of Knowledge, The Holy Dove, or The FlowerPot and Lily of # the Annunciation, were the favourites. (In the chapter onEcclesiastical Lace and under Church Lace further details are given.) Honiton Application. This lace is formed by making the sprays withon to a net ground, made either with the needle,with bobbins, or by machinery. It is the han
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