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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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