[lace] re: Lace Machines

The book Lace Machines and Machine Laces by Pat Earnshaw is available on the ABEBooks.com website at very reasonable prices. The book covers several types of lacemaking machines, with profuse illustrations comparing the machine laces with handmade laces. Published in 1986. - To unsubscribe

Re: [lace] Lacemaking machines

Hi Jane, I thought I remembered them saying the stockinette machines at Hurt's were from the 16th C (I still find it amazing they are still working after four centuries) -- they were definitely English. I know that the machine-knitting industry started under Queen Elizabeth because she was the

Re: [lace] Lacemaking machines

In Holland there is a museum, De Kantfabriek, in which the machines are still running. They do make lace, but not really for sale. The machines are running during the tours. This is their website: https://www.museumdekantfabriek.nl I will have a look for

Re: [lace] Lacemaking machines

There's a book about the machine lace industry in the Lace Guild's library which I'm sure I wrote something about on Arachne some years ago. It is something like the "History of the Nottingham Lace Industry" but I'm going on memory and may be wrong. There was a company in Long Eaton, GH Hurt &

Re: [lace] Lacemaking machines

The machines which sought to imitate bobbin lace date back to the early 1800s and I think the one I saw in Nottingham some years ago was mid-late 1800s. The frame knitting machines, one of which I saw demonstrated at G H Hurt in Nottingham, do date back to the 1600s, they were designed to knit

Re: [lace] Lacemaking machines

And there is a Facebook page called Descendents of the lacemakers of Calais. Regards Maureen > > > Hi > > I would look at the website of ‘The Australian Lacemakers of Calais’ who have > lots of information about the machine lacemakers who left England in the > early 1800s and set up in

Re: [lace] Lacemaking machines

Hi I would look at the website of ‘The Australian Lacemakers of Calais’ who have lots of information about the machine lacemakers who left England in the early 1800s and set up in Calais only to have to leave during the French Revolution. A book called ‘Well Suited to the Colony’ was written