The Romance of Lace
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A 1920 promotional booklet published by Zion Lace Industries, owned by Marshall Field & Company, tracing the history of lace from Venice through France, Flanders and England to the invention of the lace machine and its introduction to America. It then describes step by step how machine-made lace was produced at the Zion City, Illinois plant: design, chart and punched-card preparation, cotton yarn, warping, bobbin winding, threading, weaving, mending, washing, bleaching, starching and drying. It ends with an illustrated glossary of familiar laces such as Alençon, Chantilly, Cluny, Valenciennes and Venice, each with a Zion machine-made example.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1920
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 54
- Archive notes
- downloaded from archive.org.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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