Many experts think that the origin of the "Blonde" is Spanish, not French. Catalonian Blonde is a very fine bobbin lace worked on a long and narrow bolster pillow. The pricking is laid along its length, and the lace is worked. When the lacemaker reaches the bottom, she removes the pins and moves the lace up and pins it at the top of the pillow and continues as many times as needed to get the wanted length. The lace is rolled at the top of the pillow where it is kept. 

Blonde Lace uses a soft silk to better carry out the designs. The designs were worked to produce an effect of lights and darks based on the density of the stitches. 

Comparing it to Chantilly the dark sections of the pattern were often worked in a heavier thread in cloth stitch. Chantilly is worked with half stitch in those areas. Black and white silks were widely used, as well as colored silks. 

These pieces were decorated not only with floral motifs but also with landscapes and human figures. In the beginning, the most recognizable traits of Blonde were the great size of the motifs, which decorated the laces as well as fans. Later the design changed and developed under French influence and motifs became lineal and smaller, in this way laces could be made easy and quickly and the production higher in less time. 

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Catalonian blondes were very costly, both in Spain and outside. But since the industry of the machine made lace appeared the demand for handmade lace declined but not as severely or as fast as in other countries. The lacemakers continued to adapt and still remains one of the greatest sources of colored laces in gold, silver and silk.

One of the most important Catalonian multicolored blondes is displayed in Barcelona's Textile and Dressing Museum (Museo Textil y de la Indumentaria). The masterpiece is worked as a whole piece, using more than 200 bobbins. The design consists of a bunch of flowers, and the designers are Fileri and Tomas Estruch.

The most ancient Catalonian bobbin lace (Fourteenth century) can be found in the Monastery of Pedralbes (Barcelona). This piece worked with gold, colored silk, pearls and garnets, is supposed to have belonged to Her Majesty the Queen Elisenda de Montcada.