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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 29

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HERE is the great machine, weighing16,000 pounds, hand-threaded fromwarp on the beam, perforated cards at-tached in an endless revolving chain, thedropperson their monotonous course upand down over the holes in the cards whichregulate the individual threads — 32,000special metal sentinels on guard…

Lace and lace making

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