The romance of lace, its historical background, its present manufacture, its varieties and uses (1920)
Zion Lace Industries, Marshall Field & Company · Chicago, Zion lace industries, owned and operated by Marshall Field & company · leaf 28
carried upwith extreme precision, put into its properplace, and firmly moored. It takes two skilled workers two weeksto thread the lacemaking machine. Ifplaced end to end, the yarns used to threadone machine would reach from New Yorkto San Francisco and back again. Gazing upon this remarkable… … EACH great^lace machine requiresapproximately 4,000 bobbins. Thisphotograph shows the operators windingbobbins, all of which must hold the yarnwith uniform tension in the machine. The bobbins—smooth, flat circular discsof specially-prepared brass — are woundfrom spools arranged in a…
Lace and lace making
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