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Definition of Pillow lace

1. Noun. A handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillow Lace

Literary usage of Pillow lace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"An example of dainty Brussels pillow lace is given in 6g- 42. In the Brussels pillow lace a delicate modelling effect FIG. 40.—Border of Pillow-made Lace, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Hence Brussels is sometimes both a point and a pillow-lace. ... It is a bobbin (or pillow) lace of fine quality in which the sprigs (resembling Honiton) are ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the 17th century pillow lace in imitation of the scroll patterns of point ... It is from some euch cause that English pillow lace closely resembles in ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"Point-lace also formed simplest ground in the pillow-lace consist* of the twisted net or bobbin-net, originally made on the pillow, but now entirely made by ..."

5. Textiles for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools: Also Adapted by William Henry Dooley (1914)
"Third, by machinery, when imitations of both point and pillow lace patterns are produced. Special patterns for these laces date from the beginning of the ..."

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