straight lace

English

Noun

straight lace (countable and uncountable, plural straight laces)

1. A form of lace in which the ground and figures are both formed by the same thread.
   • 2001, Heather Toomer, Antique Lace: Identifying Types and Techniques, page 17:

     Furthermore, the two sides of a straight lace are usually almost indistinguishable although, occasionally, tallies (see Plate 268) are worked over the surface on the right side.

   • 2003, Marta Cotterell Raffel, The Laces of Ipswich, page 51:

     Some of the other types of straight laces are Bucks Point, Lille, Chantilly, Mechlin, and Torchon.

   • 2012, Doris Southard, Lessons in Bobbin Lacemaking:

     The pattern is matched at the ends and joined so that it is continuous around the cone. You work around and around as though you were making straight lace— you'll hardly believe it until you try it but it does work!

   • 2012, Brigita Fuhrmann, Bobbin Lace, page 63:

     Straight lace is the most common type of lace, although its use varies considerably from country to country and region to region.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straight,‎ lace.