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Definition of Lace making
1. Noun. The act or art of making handmade lace.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lace Making
Literary usage of Lace making
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A Venetian lace-designer was invited to France by Henry III about 1580, and
lace-making was established in Auvergne. Fifty years later an edict of the ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Pillow lace-making in Crete is now said to be extinct. ... For the process of
pillow lace making a scries of threads are in constant employment, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Silk pillow lace making ia carried on in Spain, especially at Barcelona. ...
The early history of the lace-making machine coincides with that of the ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"While point-lace making has always been the dis- ... In 1662 parliament, desirous
of encouraging native lace-making, Fig. 10. Fig. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In fact, for three centuries lace-making has been the chief industry of Flanders
and of Belgium. German Lace.-— Germany claims the invention of lace. ..."
6. Pillow Lace, a Practical Hand-book by Elizabeth Mincoff, Margaret S. Marriage (1907)
"PILLOW LACE CHAPTER I THE ATTRACTIONS OF LACE-MAKING Qui trop embrasse, ...
pillow lace-making offers such at- lV tractions that, at first sight, ..."
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