So, I don't need a specific date for the technique, just a ballpark
half-century or quarter-century in which something visibly
recognizable as "lace" became commonly used as clothing decoration.
I know I see recognizable lace all over Elizabethan art, and I don't
see it in 14th century art. But I don't have a sense for when
exactly it starts cropping up as a typical feature in depictions of
clothing.
In the 18th century, lace was also a woven tape that could be
used around buttonholes and worked into patterns on some military
coats. There are also the laces that go through eyelets to fasten
things.
I know what you mean, though, if the author means something like
that, readers will be looking for string & holes.
-Carol
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