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 16
hat reduced the vast hand-made lace industry. The remarkable fabrics now produced on the lacemachine can scarcely be distinguished from hand-madelaces even by experts. The lace machine was slowlyevolved, its development being the result of long yearsof experiment entailing countless disappointments… … 13 and exhaustively tested before a single perfect pieceof lace was produced. In the history of labor-savingdevices perhaps none is so filled with records of failuresas that of the lace machine. The first successful lacemachine was produced in 1809, the invention of JohnHeathcoat, an…
Lace and lace making
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