bone-lace

Salisbury and Dorchester — a handsome well-built town, but chiefly famous for making the finest bone-lace in England, and where they showed me some so exquisitely fine as I think I never saw better in Flanders, France, or Italy, and which they said they rated at above 30 pounds sterling a yard; but I suppose there was not much of this to be had.

From London to Land's End 2003

There I think I carried off a piece of bone-lace, worth six or seven pounds, and a paper of thread.

Moll Flanders 2003

Salisbury and Dorchester — a handsome well-built town, but chiefly famous for making the finest bone-lace in England, and where they showed me some so exquisitely fine as I think I never saw better in Flanders, France, or Italy, and which they said they rated at above 30 pounds sterling a yard; but I suppose there was not much of this to be had.

From London to Land's End 2003

Salisbury and Dorchester — a handsome well-built town, but chiefly famous for making the finest bone-lace in England, and where they showed me some so exquisitely fine as I think I never saw better in Flanders, France, or Italy, and which they said they rated at above 30 pounds sterling a yard; but I suppose there was not much of this to be had.

From London to Land's End 2003

In 1652, three men and a woman were fined ten shillings each and costs for wearing silver-lace, another for broad bone-lace, another for tiffany, and another for a silk hood.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

My landlady's daughter I called my bridesmaid; and sending for a shopkeeper the next morning, I gave the young woman a good suit of knots, as good as the town would afford, and finding it was a lace-making town, I gave her mother a piece of bone-lace for a head.

The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923

There I think I carried off a piece of bone-lace, worth six or seven pounds, and a paper of thread.

The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923

In Puritan days the laws could hardly be made severe enough to prevent men from wearing silver-lace and "broad bone-lace," and shoulder-bands of undue width, and double ruffs and "immoderate great breeches."

Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

I am not without hopes; because I am not like the tawdry gay things that are fit only to make bone-lace.

Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700

In this little interval also I visited some of the biggest towns in the north-west part of this county, as Blandford -- a town on the River Stour in the road between Salisbury and Dorchester -- a handsome well-built town, but chiefly famous for making the finest bone-lace in England, and where they showed me some so exquisitely fine as I think I never saw better in Flanders,

From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" Daniel Defoe 1696