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fabric made of artful holes, where the empty space is the whole point

originemerged in late 15th-century Europe as luxury craft
painstakinghandmade lace took weeks per inch
status symbolso valued it was smuggled inside corpses
bobbin armyintricate patterns used hundreds of threads at once
etymologyfrom Latin laqueus, meaning noose or snare
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