Pillow lace is entirely worked on the pillow or cushion, the pattern and ground being produced at the same time.
A pillow lace made at the French city of Auvergne and the surrounding district.
A pillow lace, hand-made from heavy linen thread, and characterized by an exceedingly open, coarse, square mesh.
A pillow lace made at Antwerp, resembling early Alencon, and whose chief characteristic is the representation of a pot or vase of flowers with which it is always decorated.
The first-named branch is needlepoint lace-making; the second, bobbin or pillow lace-making.
At the same time, the bobbin or pillow lace-workers produced grounds of small equal-size meshes in plaited threads.
Needlepoint lace-making may be regarded as a species of embroidery, whilst bobbin or pillow lace-making is closely allied to the twisting and knotting together of threads for fringes.
Notwithstanding more convincing evidence as to the earlier development of pillow lace making in Italy the invention of pillow lace is often credited to the Flemings; but there is no distinct trace of the time or the locality.
It is not new, however, and is probably already known to many of our readers as a pillow lace.
Various articles are required for the making of pillow lace; in the first place a cushion or pillow, then bobbins and a winder, parchment patterns, pins and a pricker.
Pillow lace is always made with two pairs of bobbins at once and the «stitches» are formed by the different ways of passing, plaiting, crossing and twisting the threads.
Being a Flemish town, the lace made there was purely Pillow lace, and in fineness of thread and beauty of design it rivalled in its early stages some of the fine old Flemish laces, which are more like ornamental cambric than anything else.
The terms "Bobbin lace" and "Bone lace" are derived from these and are synonymous with "Pillow lace.
Pillow lace may be easily distinguished from Point lace, as in the former the ground, or réseau, is made of plaited threads.
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