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• ... that samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, and famously by Tennyson's Lady of the Lake (pictured)?
• ... that torchon lace is one of the oldest bobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
• ... that Bucks point lace is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?

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1. 28 May 2008, Main Page appearance.
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