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<strong>Identifying</strong> <strong>H<strong>and</strong>made</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Machine</strong> <strong>Lace</strong><br />

Characteristics of machine-made lace<br />

Name &/or<br />

machine<br />

date span Ground pattern outline(when<br />

Stocking frame 1760s-1780s transferred loops rows of horizontal<br />

Single pressed<br />

point net made on<br />

stocking frame;<br />

largely superceded<br />

by double pressed,<br />

continued in France<br />

Double pressed<br />

point net; finished<br />

in Britain in 1810s,<br />

continued in<br />

France; made on<br />

stocking frame<br />

Bobbinet made on<br />

Heathcoat‟s<br />

bobbinet machine<br />

Leavers, made on<br />

adaptation of<br />

Heathcoat‟s<br />

machine; Jacquard<br />

patterning device<br />

adapted to it in<br />

1830s<br />

Pusher, also an<br />

adaptation of<br />

Heathcoat‟s<br />

machine<br />

1770s- mid<br />

19 th C<br />

1786 –<br />

1840s<br />

1809 to<br />

present<br />

1813 to<br />

present;<br />

patterned<br />

lace from<br />

1830s on<br />

1813 to<br />

e.20 th C<br />

(GB); to<br />

present (?)<br />

in France<br />

hexagonal, made<br />

by transferring<br />

loops; relies on<br />

dressing to keep<br />

its appearance<br />

hexagonal, made<br />

by transferring<br />

loops; relies on<br />

dressing to keep<br />

its appearance<br />

hexagonal ground<br />

made by threads<br />

transferring from<br />

side to side, very<br />

like Lille or Bucks<br />

grounds<br />

all sorts; very<br />

versatile; most<br />

h<strong>and</strong> made<br />

grounds have<br />

been copied<br />

hexagonal;<br />

ground made by<br />

threads<br />

transferring from<br />

side to side<br />

21<br />

loops<br />

used)<br />

h<strong>and</strong> run<br />

h<strong>and</strong> embroidered h<strong>and</strong> run<br />

h<strong>and</strong> embroidered h<strong>and</strong> run<br />

h<strong>and</strong> embroidery<br />

(needle-running<br />

or tambouring),<br />

machine<br />

embroidery (from<br />

1828), applique<br />

ribbed (bobbin<br />

fining)<br />

imitation of<br />

clothwork<br />

(independent<br />

beam)<br />

imitation half<br />

stitch (as in<br />

Chantilly);<br />

threads pushed up<br />

together<br />

h<strong>and</strong> run; or<br />

tamboured;<br />

machine<br />

embroidery<br />

(from 1828)<br />

h<strong>and</strong> run (to<br />

1850s)<br />

made with the<br />

ground <strong>and</strong><br />

pattern 1841<br />

onwards<br />

h<strong>and</strong> run (to<br />

1860s); by<br />

Cornelly<br />

machine from<br />

1860s

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