Lace, its origin and history . Real Real Guipure. Plauen.—A name applied to any kind of lace made at Plauen,Saxony, or elsewhere, upon the embroidering machine, such as Orien-tal, tulle and chiffon lace, Point de Venise, Point dIrlande. Plauenled in the manufacture of this kind of lace, having- begun it in 1881,from which year dates the importance of that city as a lace manufacture was gradually developed. Only the tulle variety ofembroidery lace was produced until 1886. The distinguishing featureof this was that the hollow effects were made by opening the tullemeshes by h
Lace, its origin and history . Real Real Guipure. Plauen.—A name applied to any kind of lace made at Plauen,Saxony, or elsewhere, upon the embroidering machine, such as Orien-tal, tulle and chiffon lace, Point de Venise, Point dIrlande. Plauenled in the manufacture of this kind of lace, having- begun it in 1881,from which year dates the importance of that city as a lace manufacture was gradually developed. Only the tulle variety ofembroidery lace was produced until 1886. The distinguishing featureof this was that the hollow effects were made by opening the tullemeshes by hand. Then, in 1886, an openwork process was inventedby which chemical action was employed to remove a woolen or silkfoundation from the cotton-embroidered pattern, or a cotton foundationfrom a silk embroidery that had been worked on it. This made itpossible to form the pattern by the embroidery machine in the same wayas in the case of ordinary embroidery. The wool foundation, which isnecessary to be removed in finishing the goods, is disso
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