Thanks for sharing, an excellent resource for many trades including #nottinghamlace

A lot of machine made lace has incredibly fine threads that support the main threads giving the impression that the main threads float in space. You very good eyesight at close range, or a magnifier to see them. No doubt this would also work in weaving

That’s gorgeous, made on a lace curtain machine 😍

#irishcrochet #lace #crichet

This is gorgeous, would love to get a closer view of that net - looks as if it might be patent/point net, n wonderful condition if it is 😍

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Bobbin lace, Blonde style as well as colour #blonde #bobbinlace

Chantilly lace, probably made on a Pusher machine #chantillylace

Lovely museum, not sure of its winter opening hours

These ladies are using ‘bolster’ style pillows on pillow horses. Rather than solid table tops they’re more of a hoop into which the pillow sits without tipping as they’re working. Good example at Pitt Rivers laceincontext.com/global-histo...

Looks like it was made for a much larger pillow (possibly even a bolster?). This pillow almost certainly not the one the stand was intended for. Might be worth asking Aylesbury, Bedford and Luton museums if they have anything similar as they all have good collections of lacemaking equipment

Particularly love the elongated shape of these

Love the description of the tatting as ‘Dust proof’ - if only 😂. ‘Tatting’ in this case was a generic term for fancy machine made edgings - causes no end of confusion

Adore that bug 😍

The lace on the pink fabric backing is Tatting, hand made, probably with a shuttle (not sure when needle-tatting started)

Thank you 😃

Worth checking for tiny bits of thread caught in the bobbin mechanism - I often take mine apart and clean it out but that takes courage if you’re not used to doing it. Wishing you luck in sorting it

I usually wear grey in the lace archive - all of the sample books etc that have come from machine-made lace factories have a fine layer of graphite powder which was in the air from lubricating the machines. Constantly popping out to wash my hands before working with the 'clean' materials

Sorry, should have added that Urlings were machine lace manufacturers and this would have been cotton thread, I'm not sure that silk was being used on twist-net machines that early (would love to know for sure)

The 'free of fibre' would have been passed over a gas flame to remove the very fine 'fibers/hairs' and give a smoother thread. This not only gives a better quality, less fuzzy, lace but also prevents the fine working parts of the machines from clogging up with shed fibres

Fabulous find, thanks for sharing. Especially good to see the different qualities of lace threads available for manufacturing lace (net) on machines