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The nicest definition of the bobbin lace is from the fairy tale of Marie Kubátová Straw Mary:
They took out formerly, after winter and before Easter the "Grim Reaper" – Straw Mary. She was made of straw and she asks, in the fairy tale, the lace collar as the only one decoration and she explains in Giant mountains dialect what is the lace to Fána, the girl who dresses her.:
... "You see – it is nothing than a hole caught to a thread, as a bird in to the net and what is the beauty."
"The window is also nothing more than nothing in the wall and you can see sky through it," said white godmother. "I will teach you to catch nothing in the thread. Even pauper has much of empty nothing. When you make me the collar of caught holes, it will be also your wealth."
"But where to get threads for festive neckband?", Fána looked.
Mary breathed with straw mouth under the wimple to the window. And just damask spread on the window, so silk beauty that neither vendor would not be able to pay for it..
"you will unpick the thread from my ice embroidery on the window. You catch piece of emptiness to the thread eye and again, you order it to the parade and you have the lace." ...So the lace is a transparent airy textile with fine beauty design. You definitely know the lace woven or crocheted, less known are laces netted, Macramé or needle. Bobbin lace is the lace, made by crossing and taking through the threads reeled on bobbins – little pieces of small wood. Bobbins sing and clap as the ones for the tambour when lacing. Threads are step by step reeled off and pined to the drawn design – we call it pattern. It lies on the pillow filled by sawdust or hays. We call it in lace language the lace pillow. Then, it is necessary the stand – so the lace pillow sits fix in it – and we can start bobbin lacing.
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