in commerce, a work composed of many threads of gold, silver or silk, interwoven the one with the other, and worked upon a pillow with spindles, according to the pattern designed. The open work being formed with pins, which are placed and displaced as the spindles are moved.

The importation of gold and silver lace is prohibited.

Bone Lace, a lace made of fine linen thread or silk, much in the same manner as that of gold and silver. The pattern of the lace is fixed upon a large round pillow, and pins being stuck into the holes or openings in the pattern, the threads are interwoven by means of a number of bobbins made of bone or ivory, each of which contains a small quantity of fine thread, in such a manner as to make the lace exactly resemble the pattern. There are several towns in England, and particularly in Buckinghamshire, that carry on this manufacture; but vast quantities of the finest laces have been imported from Flanders.