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2. Chemical lace - Wikipedia

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   Chemical lace Teneriffe motif lace. Chemical lace (sometimes referred to as Schiffli lace) is a form of machine-made lace. This method of lace-making is done by embroidering a pattern on a sacrificial fabric that has been chemically treated so as to disintegrate after the pattern has been created. Schiffli machines came into use in the late ...

3. Schiffli embroidery machine - Wikipedia

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   A different machine, the lace machine, was used to produce other types of lace. U.S. industrialists saw the potential for domestic embroidery manufacturing. In early 1900s schiffli machines were imported and many Swiss immigrated from the canton of St. Gallen to Hudson County, New Jersey and helped establish the industry there. [2]

4. Category:Lace - Wikipedia

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   Lace is lightweight openwork fabric, patterned, either by machine or by hand, with open holes in the work. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often lace is built up from a single thread and the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric.

5. Lace - Wikipedia

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   Valuable old lace, cut and framed for sale in Bruges, Belgium. Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, [1] made by machine or by hand. Generally, lace is split into two main categories, needlelace and bobbin lace, [2]: 122 although there are other types of lace, such as knitted or crocheted lace. Other laces ...

6. Chicago Embroidery Company - Wikipedia

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   In 1913, New Yorker John Avery, an advertising counselor and associate sales manager at Arnold B. Heine Co., a New York-based lace and embroidery company, acquired a one-third interest in the Chicago Embroidery Company. [1] The company prospered, but Swiss-style lace fell out of fashion in the 1930s.

7. Leewards Creative Crafts - Wikipedia

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   Leewards Creative Crafts, or Leewards, was an American crafts and fabrics retailer. It was founded in Elgin, Illinois, in 1947. The chain had approximately 87 stores at its peak. [2] In 1994, it was purchased by Michaels. [3] [4]