In message <[email protected]>, diane
<[email protected]> writes
Hi
Can anyone tell me if machines were ever able to make torchon lace
exactly the way a human makes it?
I can identify most machine lace because it appears to be based on
weaving variations but there is a lot of heavy torchon style lace
available and when I look at it, it looks similar in construction to my
own torchon but it is relatively cheap.
Are there machines doing this or people in sweat shops in the third
world?
Thanks
Both. I believe it is China where the handmade items are made, but some
years ago, as contact for a lace group, I was sent a brochure by a
factory in Italy who were making Barmen machines - the lace pictured on
the front was very difficult to tell from handmade. This machine is the
circular one, where the bobbins "dance" round each other. Of course,
priced at thousands of pounds and weighing a couple of ton, we weren't
interested in buying one...!
This is why I always tell my students not to worry if there is a mistake
in their work, as long as it doesn't change the thread path - it is
proof of it being handmade, as long as the same mistake isn't made in
every pattern repeat!
--
Jane Partridge
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