Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 184
das (pillows)proportioned to their height, on which they soon learn tomanage the bobbins, sometimes sixty dozen or more, withgreat dexterity/ The nuns of Odivales were, till the dis-solution of the monasteries, famed for their lace fabricatedof the fibres of the aloe. Pillow-lace was made at… … Bobbin-Lace.—(Brazil.) threads of the linen were drawn out after the manner ofcut-work ; but the manufacture had entirely ceased until1850 (circ. , when it was re-established by Mrs. Bayman.^^ ^ The Queen, August, 1872. The places in Portugal where thelace industry is chiefly exercised arePeniche,…
Lace and lace making
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