Lace, and its Manufacture
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A short article from The Penny Magazine (16 May 1840) on the history and manufacture of lace. It traces pillow-lace and needle lace from Italy, Saxony, Flanders and France to the English centres of Honiton, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. It explains how handmade pillow lace is worked with bobbins and pins on a parchment pattern, and lists the mesh structures of Brussels, Mechlin, Valenciennes, Lisle and Alençon laces. It closes with a brief account of machine-made bobbin-net, with two diagrams of the mesh structure.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- May 16, 1840
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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