Articles of category "Lace making"

What do we know about machine made lace? The Levers machine (invented in England around 1820 by John Levers), combining machine bobbin techniques with weaving techniques, was in use for manufacturing pattern laces. It became the next stage of the lace development! Since that time, we see the machine lace everywhere. Being machine made, laces became more affordable.

The hand made lace came to Europe in the 17th century. The fashionable laces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were made using bobins or needle, and these are still the two main techniques. It came to Europe as a separate and developed art and got there a further growth. Later the progress led to the development of the machine-made lace. Nevertheless, the hand made masterpieces did not disappear! The hand made lace remains popular and claimed.