Imitations of Hand-Made Lace by Machinery, Part I
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An article by George Middleton on machine-made imitations of hand-made lace. The text surveys the machines that produce lace: bobbinet, bobbinet-Jacquard (Pusher), Levers, Nottingham curtain, Bonnaz, Barmen braiding and schiffli embroidery machines, with burnt-out lace as one product. It traces their origins from William Lee's knitting frame and John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine, and says which hand-made laces each machine can copy. Most of the pages are numbered plates (31 specimens) of machine-made pillow and needle-point lace imitations, some paired with hand-made originals such as Valenciennes, Point de Flandre and Binche, and a final 1867 fashion plate.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1938
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 30
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