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Definition of Point lace
1. Noun. Lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Point Lace
Literary usage of Point lace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Brussels point dc gaze is the most filmy and delicate of all point-lace. Its forms
are not accentuated by a raised outline of button-hole stitching as in ..."
2. Point and Pillow Lace: A Short Account of Various Kinds Ancient and Modern by Mary Sharp (1899)
"From the French " point," a stitch—properly applied only to Lace made with needle
stitches, or Needle-point lace. This term has been often much misapplied. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"These patterns were never so strictly geometric in style as those adopted for
the earliest point lace making from the antecedent cut linen and drawn thread ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The converse of this consisted in darning in patterns on a gauze or other Fig.
2.—Reticella Needle-point Lace, Italian, 16th century. open woven texture, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Some large and elaborate specimens of this flat point lace were made at this ...
The delicate Venetian point lace made with a ground of meshes is usually ..."
6. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Victoria prima point lace. [Few departments of ornamental industry have ...
British point lace berthe, manufactured at Islington, being an imitation of the ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The heavy old point lace was supplanted by the finest Indian muslin. 'Madame
Etiquette' might be indignant, the Maréchal de Luxembourg might declare the ..."
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