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	The Appeal of Lace 19 January 2000   This term describes various kinds of fine fabric distinguished by open work and created by plaiting numerous threads attached to individual bobbins (bobbin or pillow lace) or by working with a needle and a single thread (needlepoint lace)............ Collecting Lace By Mel Lewis 19 April 2000   Lace was at its most fashionable, and elaborate, in Elizabethan times, when a single ruff might incorporate lace a metre wide and 20 metres long! Virtually impossible to fake, antique lace looks almost gemlike under glass, against a purple velvet or blue silk background............ Bucks Point Lace 18 January 2001   Bucks Point Lace lies somewhere between the extremely fine Honiton lace and the slightly thicker Torchon. Indeed, lacemakers will often master Torchon before they move on to Bucks Point............ Bedfordshire Lace 18 January 2001   Lace-making in Bedfordshire, England dates back as far back as 1596 and by the eighteenth century there were hundreds of families across the county who made lace as part of a cottage industry............ Cluny Lace 18 January 2001   Cluny lace takes its name from a collection of 16th century Genoese laces preserved at the Cluny Museum (Musee de Cluny) in Paris. These laces inspired the prolific French lacemakers of the 19th century to imitate the patterns and create a ‘new’ continuous lace............ Torchon Lace 18 January 2001   Most people who embark on the lifelong study of handmade lace-making start by making Torchon lace, as it is generally regarded as the most simple pattern............ Lace Bobbins 19 January 2000   The bobbins used in the making of pillow lace served to identify each individual thread. The lace is made on pins placed on a pricked parchment pattern on a pillow............ Church Lace 14 April 2000   The Catholic Church was the first patron of lace making in Europe and the finest existing samples both of early and late work were made for use in the church............