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Threads used in Bobbin Lace.

Bobbin Lace is a very old craft and the threads used have changed over the centuries. Traditionally threads used are from natural fibres. Silk and Linen was in common use until the development of the cotton industry in the Nineteenth Century. Modern or contempory laces use synthetic fibres in fact anything that can be twisted or crossed. As the name implies the threads used are wound onto wooden bobbins of varying styles dependant on the country of origin.