Sue Chemical lace is a machine made lace based on embroidery. the base fabric is some kind of synthetic which can be easily dissolved with acid or some other chemical solution. The machine does cotton thread embroidery upon the synthetic fabric. The embroidery pattern is designed in such a way that the needles go back and forth catching other parts already embroidered. The entire fabric is then soaked in an acid or chemical bath to dissolve the background fabric. Then just the cotton embroidery threads are left. Chemical lace. I don't know exactly when this technique was developped. Lorelei
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