page_title: Nottingham lace curtain machine
hierarchical_section_title: Nottingham lace curtain machine
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches) Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: t Ford-ham, in Xew York City, in 188.5. VARIETIES OF LACE CURTAINS The principal varieties of lace curtains are: (1) French Lace Curtains.—A general name for thosemade with real lace mounted on machine net, or on silk, or on scrim,as well as for the few that are made entirely of real lace. (2) XoTTiNGHAM Lace Curtains.—A general name for thosewoven in one piece on the lace curtain machine, usually with anembroidered buttonhole edging added after weaving and sometimeswith an appli(jue cord, as in the once popular corded arabians. (3) Swiss Lace Curtains.—A general name for those madeby embroidering designs with the bonnaz sewing machine on machinenet. The principal varieties are tambour, brussels, applique and irishpoint. The tambours are so called from the embroidery frame thatformerly held the net while the embroidery was put in by hand withthe crochet hook. The bnts.sels have the held of figures filled in withbonnaz stitch of finer yarn (Plate III). The appliques have thin 101 Text Appearing After Image: — oi Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The lace curtain machine is a lace machine invented by John Livesey in Nottingham in 1846. It was an adaptation of John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine. It made the miles of curtaining which screened Victorian and later windows.
context_section_description: The lace curtain machine is a lace machine invented by John Livesey in Nottingham in 1846. It was an adaptation of John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine. It made the miles of curtaining which screened Victorian and later windows.
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