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 24
iginated in theold world and reached a high stage ofdevelopment there, it is these nativepeople who are the more adept at thework. That is why, in order to create thevery finest laces possible to make on amachine, both the marvelous machineryand the majority of the workers them-selves, were brought… … WHEN the design is completed, it isenlarged, and transferred to a finely-checkered chart, on which hundreds ofnumerals appear, representing the separatethreads of which the lace is woven anddecipherable only to an experienced laceman. This chart is placed before the puncherwho transfers the pattern…
Lace and lace making
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