Lace
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A short 1872 magazine article giving a general overview of lace: its antiquity, the main centers of production, and the different types such as Brussels, Mechlin, Valenciennes, Chantilly, Alençon and bobbinet. It describes how pillow lace is made with bobbins and a pricked parchment pattern, and how machine lace began with Hammond's stocking-frame experiments at Nottingham around 1768. It also covers embroidering and dressing lace net and the making of gold lace from gilt silver wire wound on silk thread.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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