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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lace, usually of linen thread, made on a cushion with bobbins, and taking its sole or chief decorative character from the pattern woven into it, as distinguished from point-lace: so named from the fact that the bobbins were originally made of bone.
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hernesheir commented on the word bone lace
Also bobbin lace and pillow lace. Link.
May 4, 2011