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Bobbin Lace Glossary

This is the index to my website. I have also indexed grounds from "A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors" by Gertrude Whiting (1920), so if you can't find what you want below, try the different indexes there.

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Names in italics are foreign.

Adding bobbins
Ajedrez (punto de) (Spanish)
Armour net
Armure-Binche (from Belgium)

Barleycorn
Barley ground
Bead (Bucks Point)
Bead insertion
Bedfordshire lace (Beds, Bedford)
Bedfordshire spider
Beginner patterns
Belgium lace
Bias ground
Binche Armure (from Belgium)
Bobbins
Bobbin lace
Bobbin mesh
Bobbin winding
Bohemian footside
Books about lace
Braid
Bride
Broad hole
Broken thread
Brussels ground
Bud
Bucks Point introduction
Bucks Point fan
Bucks Point net (ground)
Bucks Point patterns
Buitenranden (Dutch)

Cane ground
Cathedral spider (lower)
Cathedral spider (upper)
Ceylon lace
Chain stitch
Changing workers at pin
Chequerboard ground
Chevron pointing downwards
Chevron pointing upwards
Cinq trous (French)
Circular mat
Circular mat with hole in centre
Classes
Closed pin
Cloth stitch
Cloth stitch (solid area)
Cloth stitch and twist
Cloth stitch fan
Cloth stitch footside
Cloth stitch scallop
Clothing
Clothwork
Cluny edge
Cluny lace
Contact me
Corners
Coronet fan or shell
Covering a pin
Crochet hook
Cross (lace stitch)
Cross from middle (lace shape)
Cross from ends (lace shape)
Cross-overs
Crown headside
Cucumber

Demi-point (French)
Denteliere (French)
Dense areas
Designing your own lace
Design lace (interactive)
Design lace for corner (interactive)
Design lace (kit)
Diamond
Diamond mesh
Dieppe ground
Dot
Dot ground
Double passing
Double stitch
Double Torchon ground
Downton lace
Downton whole stitch
Draai (Dutch)
Driehoeksgrond (Dutch)
Droschel (? German)
Dubbele netslag (Dutch)
Dutch lace

Edge of a circular mat
Edge of a square mat
English lace styles
English Maltese lace
English Midland lace
English Midland patterns

False gimp
False starting pins
Fan (headside)
Fan (French)
Fan (twisted)
Fan (heart)
Fan (making a)
Finishing lace (simple)
Finishing lace (more complicated)
Finishing mats
Finnish lace
Fish tail fan headside
Fir Tree headside
Five hole ground
Flemish lace
Flower (Bucks Point)
Flower (Torchon)
Fond (French)
Fond a la vierge (French)
Fond chant (French)
Fond clair (French)
Fond de mariage (French)
Fond de neige (French)
Fond d'orge (French)
Fond simple (French)
Footsides
Foreign lace
Free Hand lace
French fan
French ground
French lace

Ganzschlag (German)
Gap (large)
Gap (small)
Garens (Dutch)
Gauze stitch
Gedraaide Zelfkant (Dutch)
German lace
German spider
Gesloten speldslag (Dutch)
Gimp
Gravenmoer diamond (from Netherlands)
Grids for making lace
Grille (French)
Grond in dubbele netslag (Dutch)
Grond in netslag (Dutch)
Grond in tuleslag (Dutch)
Grounds
Ground diamond
Guipure
Guilds

Halbschlag (German)
Hairpin stitch
Half linen
Half passing
Half point
Half spider
Half stitch
Half stitch (solid)
Half stitch and twist
Half stitch fan
Half stitch ground
Half stitch spider
Half throw
Hands technique
Heart
Heart headside
Headsides
Hercules knot
Hexagonal mats
History of English lacemaking
Hole (large)
Hole (small)
Honeycomb
Honingraatgrond (Dutch)
Honiton lace
Horizontal edge
How to make lace

Identification of lace online
Insert a bead
Interactive lace designer
Interactive lace designer (corner)
Italian lace

Jingle
Join - 2 + 1 pair
Join - 4 pairs
Join - 6 pairs
Join - variable pairs
Joining lace
Joining shapes horizontally
Joining shapes vertically

Kantkloskussen (Dutch)
Kantklospatroon (Dutch)
Kat stitch
Kettelschlag (German)
Kiss stitch
Kit for designing lace
Kloppelkissen (German)
Klosjes (Dutch)
Knots
Knotted picot
Kroontjes (Dutch)

Lace - how to get started
Lace days
Lace groups
Lace tells
Lattice stitch
Lazy Join - 4 pairs
Lazy Join - 6 pairs
Large hole
Leaders
Leaf
Leg - plait
Leg - spider
Lessons online
Lille ground
Linen stitch
Linnen Zelfkant (Dutch)
Linnenslag (German)
Long open spider

Maglia di Spagna (Italian)
Making a sewing
Making lace
Maltese headside
Maltese lace
Mariage (fond de) (French)
Mats (circular)
Mats (square)
Mechlin (French)
Midland lace
Monja (punto) (Spanish)
Mundillo (from Panama)
Museums

Net
Net ground
Netherlands lace
Netslag (Dutch)
New thread (knot)
New thread (no knot)
Nine pin headside

Oeil de perdix (French)
Open pin
Open spider (simple)
Open spider (square hole)
Open spider (German)
Open spider (long)
Open spiders and peas
Orge (fond d') (French)
Overhand knot

Paddepoot (Dutch)
Paintings of lacemakers
Panama lace
Panama patterns
Parallel thread
Partridge eye
Passee de filet (French)
Passives
Passives and picots headside
Pattern and prickings
Patterns for you to use
Peas and open spiders
Pea
Pentagonal mats
Perdiz (punto de) (Spanish)
Petal
Picot
Picot (knotted)
Picots and passives headside
Picots headside
Pictures of lacemakers
Pillow
Pillow lace
Pillow technique
Pins
Pins (using)
Plain work
Plait
Plaited headside
Point (Bucks)
Point (? French)
Point de filet (French)
Point de Paris (French)
Point entier (French)
Point matte (?French)
Pollera (from Panama )
Pricking a pattern
Pricking card
Pricker
Prikking (Dutch)
Principles of Torchon lace design
Projects for making lace
Punto de ajedrez (Spanish)
Punto de perdiz (Spanish)
Punto monja (Spanish)

Quotes about lace

Raised tally
Reef knot
Removing bobbins
Reseau (French)
Ribbon hole (large)
Ribbon hole (small)
Ringed snowflake ground
Rose ground
Rose ground edge
Rose ground with lines
Rozengrond (Dutch)
Roundels
Ruiten (Rechthoekig) (Dutch)
Runners
Running out of thread

Scallop headside
Scallop (cloth)
Schlagwechseldrehungen (German)
Scissors
Sewing (making a)
Sewing lace onto fabric
Sewn footside
Shell headside
Sierdraad (Dutch)
Simple ground
Simple plaited headside
Six-point star
Slip knot
Small hole
Snowflake (simple)
Snowflake ground (simple)
Snowflake (ringed) ground
Solid areas
Spangle
Spanish fan headside
Spanish ground
Spanish lace
Spelden (Dutch)
Spelderwerkster (Dutch)
Spinnen (Dutch)
Spiders (various types)
Spider - 8 legs
Spider - 12 legs
Spider - 16 legs
Spider - Bedfordshire
Spider - Half stitch
Spider ground
Spider ground with dots
Spider ground with lines
Spitzenklopplerin (German)
Square knot
Square mat
Square mesh
Sri Lanka headside
Sri Lankan lace
Star ground
Start lacemaking
Starting lace (simple)
Starting lace (more complicated)
Starting mats
Starting pins
Stitches
Streepvierge (Dutch)
Strip (Torchon)
Strips (lace shape)
Suppliers
Swedish lace
Swiss lace

Tally
Tape lace
Taking out bobbins
Tells (lace)
Ten-stick
Thin strip (alternative method)
Thread
Three-way join (6 pairs)
Tightening threads
Toile (French)
Torcal (Catalan)
Torchon ground
Torchon double ground
Torchon lace
Torchon patterns
Trail
Trail headside
Trefoil (Bucks Point)
Trena vella (Catalan)
Triangle (Torchon)
Triangle (Bucks Point)
Triangle from strip (lace shape)
Triangle from corner (lace shape)
Triangular ground
Tulle mesh
Turning stitch
Turning stitch and twist
Twist both pairs
Twist single pair
Twisted fan
Twisted fan (scallop)
Twisted footside
Twisted half stitch
Twisted hole ground

Valenciennes ground
Vella (trena) (Catalan)
Verbinding (Dutch)
Vertical edge
Vierge (fond a la) (French)
Virgin ground
Vlecht (Dutch)
Vlecht rand (Dutch)
Vollwerk (German)
Vrai reseau (French)

Waaier in linnenslag (Dutch)
Waaier met nerf (Dutch)
Walkers
Weavers
Wedding ground
Wheat ears
Whole throw
Whole stitch (cloth stitch)
Whole stitch (cloth stitch and twist)
Wiggly lace
Winding bobbins
Windmill
Winkie pin cloth footside
Winkie pin plaited footside
Winkie pin twisted footside
Wire (for spangling bobbins)
Wire (for strengthening the lace edge)
Wire ground
Workers
Working lace

Zelfkanten (Dutch)
Zigzag