Lace points are inserted at the end of a strap or string to protect it and to facilitate the lacing of clothing. Archaeological findings show that lace points used on both leather straps and textile materials. In the latter case braided silk appears to been common. Lace points appear more numerous from the late 1300s and thereafter used for hundreds of years. Poits was still an important part of man’s suit during the 1600s. Just as with the buttons lace points became common when tight fashion became popular from the mid-1300s.

Lace points seem mainly to have been made of brass sheet formed into a tapered tube. Several examples indicate that lace points with holes at the wide end has had little iron rivets in itself. When the lace points are attached to a strap / string you get points. It takes two lace points, one at each end to create points. Points are then used to bind hoses to the purpoint.