Sentence examples for bobbin from inspiring English sources
noun
A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
Valenciennes lace, one of the most famous of bobbin laces, first made in the French city of Valenciennes, Nord département, and later in Belgium (around Ypres and Ghent) and on the French Belgian frontier at Bailleul.
Almost all laces that have some claim to be called works of art are made in one of two techniques, needle lace and bobbin lace.
Most authorities, however, agree that needle lace originated in Italy, bobbin lace in Flanders.
Genoese lace, bobbin lace made at Genoa, Italy, from the second half of the 16th century; it developed from the earlier knotted fringe called punto a groppo.
The predominant British reel of the day was called the Nottingham reel, based on the wooden lace bobbin devised in the lace-making town of that name.
Each thread is wound at its lower end around the neck of an elongated spool, or bobbin.
The first written mention of bobbin laces dates from 1536 (in the introduction to the Zürich pattern book, printed in 1561) and places their origin in Venice.
In the creation of bobbin lace, each hand holds one of a pair of bobbins.
Needle lace, with bobbin lace, one of the two main kinds of lace.
Andrew Carnegie, who had risen from bobbin-boy to steel magnate in 17 years, worried about the contrast between "the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the labourer".
It was similar to the early bobbin-made lace of Genoa and had geometric patterns in which Maltese crosses and small, pointed ears of wheat were incorporated.
