| TATTLING | Carrying yarns left in lacemaking |
| LANYARD | Young chap carrying yarn devised for cord around neck (7) |
| TIE | Neck accessory, sometimes with school or club colours; another word for a bride in lacemaking; a slur-like symbol in musical notation; or, equality in score or votes (3) |
| RESEAU | Fine-net ground used in lacemaking (6) |
| HONITON | Husband getting silly notion in lacemaking town (7) |
| ANNE | A queen of the Stuart dynasty whose skill in lacemaking, or lace itself, is said to have inspired one of the names for cow-parsley (4) |
| LISLE | Knitted yarn left with new leis |
| TAT | Work at lacemaking, in a way |
| STITCH | Word, alluding to the movement of a needle and thread, for a sharp stabbing pain; or, a loop of yarn, left as a result of a single pass of said bodkin (6) |
| TEXTILES | Fabrics created by means of braiding, felting, knitting, lacemaking, plaiting, tufting or weaving; or, the fibres or yarns used for thus (8) |
| TIVERTON | Market town in mid Devon noted for its lacemaking industry (8) |
| TATTED | Worked at lacemaking |
| ALENCON | Town of Normandy, France, associated with lacemaking |
| MECHELEN | Flemish city noted for lacemaking and vegetable markets whose inhabitants are traditionally called moon-extinguishers (8) |
| BOBBINS | Spools for lacemaking or sewing machines; shuttles for weaving; narrow braids, cords and other such passementerie; or, bars on strings for raising door latches (7) |
| LINEN | Cloth or thread woven or spun from flax, traditionally used for household textiles or lacemaking (5) |
| NYLON | Material needs yarn left over? Not initially (5) |
| TWILL | Textile weave in which the weft yarns are worked around two or more warp yarns, creating a pattern of parallel diagonal lines (5) |
| WEFT | Yarns shuttled in a loom |
| WEFTS | Yarns used in weaving |
