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bobbin lace

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bobbin lace
n.
An intricate handmade lace made by interlacing thread around small notched pins or bobbins stuck into a pillow. Also called pillow lace, point.
bobbin lace
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
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Noun1.bobbin lacebobbin lace - a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins
pillow lace
lace - a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
Valenciennes lace, Valenciennes - a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns


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Celeste Perrino-Walker--author, wife, mother, and editor of Listen magazine--keeps her stresses at bay in Rutland, Vermont, by making bobbin lace with imported English thumpers (what the British call the bobbins).
It's always something by Perrino-Walker, Celeste / Vibrant Life
Sunday, the Elverhoj Museum at 1640 Elverhoy Way will feature demonstrations of Old World Danish crafts such as bobbin lace making, weaving and paper-cutting.
TRAVEL TALES : IT'S PARTY TIME, EUROPEAN STYLE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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