lace-making
11lace|mak|ing — «LAYS MAY kihng», noun. the art or process of making lace …
12Lace Sensor — The Lace Sensor is a guitar pickup designed by Don Lace and manufactured by AGI (Actodyne General International) since 1985. This world famous line of electric guitar pickups was used exclusively by Fender from 1987 to 1996. Lace Sensors are true …
13Venetian needle lace — ▪ lace French Point De Venise, Venetian lace made with a needle from the 16th to the 19th century. Early examples were deep, acute angled points, each worked separately and linked together by a narrow band, or “footing,” stitched with… …
14Argentan lace — ▪ lace French Point D argentan, lace made at the French town of Argentan from the 17th century, when Louis XIV s minister Jean Baptiste Colbert founded the lace industry. Characteristic of this lace is a net background consisting of a large… …
15Lace pillow — Pillow Pil low, n. [OE. pilwe, AS. pyle, fr. L. pilvinus.] 1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [1913 Webster] [Resty sloth] finds the …
16lace — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 for a shoe ⇨ See ↑shoelace 2 decorative cloth ADJECTIVE ▪ delicate, fine VERB + LACE ▪ make ▪ a machine for making lace …
17lace — 1) fine plastic tubing wrapped around the shank of a hook to give the appearance of a segmented body 2) the round stick used to form the mesh in making fishing nets (Dorset) …
18Bobbin lace — is a lace textile made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them. As the work progresses, the weaving is held in place with pins set in a lace pillow, the placement of the pins usually determined by a… …
19Chantilly lace — This article is about the type of lace. For the song, see Chantilly Lace (song). For the film, see Chantilly Lace (film) …
20Valenciennes lace — is a type of bobbin lace which originated in Valenciennes, in the Nord département of France, and flourished from about 1705 to 1780. Valenciennes. The Oxford English Dictionay . 2nd ed. 1989.] cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia… …
