Types
Many styles of lace were made in the heyday of lacemaking (approximately the 16th-18th centuries) before machine-made lace became available. Some well-known types of bobbin lace are:
- Honiton – very fine English lace with many flowers
- Torchon – well known for its variety of beautiful, often geometric grounds
- Cluny – flowers, braids and picots (tiny loops of thread) make this light and delicate
- Bedfordshire lace (Beds) – this has flowing lines and picots (to foil the machines)
- Bucks point Buckinghamshire lace – very "lacy" with characteristic hexagon ground and often with a gimp thread (a heavier thread worked through for emphasis)
- Mechlin – fine, transparent Flemish lace known for its floral patterns, fine twisted-and-plaited, hexagonal ground, and outlined designs
- Valenciennes – French bobbin lace with a net-like background originating in the 18th century
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