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Lace Machines and Machine Laces. Batsford. ISBN 0713446846. Farrell, Jeremy (2007). "Identifying Handmade and Machine Lace" (PDF). DATS (Dress and Textile Specialists) in partnership with the V&A. Felkin, William. A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufacturies. Longmans, G.Keen, and co. 1867. Rosatto, Vittoria (1948).
One of the museum's framework knitting machines incorporates a Lace Bar Attachment. This attachment, invented in Nottingham in about 1760, enables a form of knitted lace to be made on a framework knitting machine. In 1808 John Heathcoat developed a hand-operated lace-making machine, able to make lace in the same manner as lace is made by hand ...
In this way, mechanical lace-making was born. [3] But there was no carriage or comb, and the operations continued to be performed sequentially by the operator. Invented by John Livesey in Nottingham in 1846, the lace curtain machine was initially seen as a form of a Leavers machine - a modification of the Circular. The Leavers mesh tends to be ...
Boulevard Works is the largest surviving tenement lace factory in Nottingham, dating from 1883. [2] It was built for George Henry Perry and Sons and comprises a 5 storey building, plus basement and attic. It had capacity for 234 standings of Levers lace making machines.
Leavers lace machines Border (ST293) - Lace-Machine Lace - MoMu Antwerp. The Leavers machine is a lacemaking machine that John Levers adapted from Heathcoat's Old Loughborough machine. It was made in Nottingham in 1813. The name of the machine was the Leavers machine (the 'a' was added to aid pronunciation in France).
Lace dates at least as far back as the early 16th century, where it was handmade using a single needle and thread to stitch a delicate pattern or braided using multiple threads, by nuns. Later ...
It is one of two museums in France to celebrate machine lace making. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage . [ 1 ] Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode is a museum of both fashion and industry, its vast galleries present the techniques, the lingerie, and haute couture associated with this prestigious textile ...
John Levers was born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, where he was baptized on 12 March 1786, the eldest son of John Levers and his wife, Ann, née Walker.He had three siblings: Joseph Levers (b. c.1796), a lace maker and a lace mechanic; Mary Levers (b. 1797), a lace runner; and Thomas Levers (b. 1800), a machine-maker.