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    Leavers Lace - A Hand Book of the American Leaver Lace Industry
    Leavers Lace - A Hand Book of the American Leaver Lace Industry
    Leavers Lace - A Hand Book of the American Leaver Lace Industry
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    Leavers Lace - A Hand Book of the American Leaver Lace Industry

    By Vittoria Rosatto

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    This book deals with the lace industry, exploring its history in England, Europe, and in the United States. Lace is a decorative, open-work fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads of various fibres. Concentrating on the invention of mechanical production, this comprehensive and profusely-illustrated volume will appeal to those with an interest in the history of waving and lace. Contents include: “A History of Textiles and Weaving”, “Foreword”, “History of lace”, “Hand-Made Lace”, “Pillow or Bobbin Lace”, “European Centers of Pillow Lace Manufacture”, “Hand-Made Lace in The U. S.”, “The Origin and Chronological Development of Lace Machines”, “The Origin of Lace Machines”, “Warp Lace Frames”, “Leavers Lace Industry in the United States”, “Yarns Used in Making Leavers Laces”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of textiles and weaving.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473388635
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      Leavers Lace - A Hand Book of the American Leaver Lace Industry - Vittoria Rosatto

      LEAVERS LACE

      A Hand Book of the American Leavers

      Lace Industry

      Prepared under the Direction of

      PROFESSOR VITTORIA ROSATTO

      Head of the Department of Design and Weaving

      Lowell Textile Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts

      from a study made by

      PROFESSOR EDWARD L. GOLEC

      and

      GEORGE G. ARMSTRONG, JR.

      Foreword

      IN THE SPRING OF 1948, Professor Vittoria Rosatto, Head of the Department of Design and Weaving of the Lowell Textile Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts, received copies of a little promotional booklet on Leavers Lace published by the American Lace Manufacturers Association, Incorporated, and based on a study made by Mrs. Breene L. Wright of the United States Testing Company.

      Professor Rosatto, always on the lookout for something new in the field of textiles, wrote the Association commenting that, from an educational standpoint, the booklet should go much further in developing the interest in lace which it aroused. She wanted to know all there was to know about this Aristocrat of Textile Fabrics.

      Conversations between the officers of the Association, Professor Rosatto and the faculty of the Institute resulted in a plan under which the Institute would furnish the skilled research men and the Association would pay for the research so that a booklet might be forthcoming which would tell the whole Leavers Lace story and which might also be used as a text book for actual teaching.

      In July, 1948, Professor Edward L. Golee of the Department of Design and Weaving and George G. Armstrong, Jr., an Instructor in the same department, at Lowell, came to Providence and, with the cost of the project defrayed by the Association, went into the lace mills to make their study, Professor Golee armed with a note book and Mr. Armstrong equipped with his camera, and both filled with insatiable curiosity.

      The result of their weeks of labor lies before you As practical lace manufacturers the officers of the Association believe the work is competent and enlightening. The history of the industry, in England, on the Continent and in the United States is the joint work of Professor Golee and the Executive Director of the Association. The technical portion of the book is the work of Professor Golee and Mr. Armstrong, carefully checked for accuracy by Mr. Harold G. Truman, Manager of the New England Lace Mills, a Lace Draftsman in his own right, and by Mr. Bert Edson, Designer and Mr. Leonard Truman, Superintendent of the New England Lace Mills.

      The illustrations in the book are almost entirely the work of Mr. Armstrong supplemented here and there, when necessary, by reproductions where the original subject could not be photographed.

      The Leavers Lace Trade in the United States owes a debt of gratitude to President Kenneth Russell Fox of the Lowell Textile Institute and to Dean Simon Williams, also of the Institute but most particularly to Professor Rosatto who worked unceasingly in the supervision, correction and amplification of this book.

      LEAVERS LACE is submitted to the industry, the Textile schools of the United States and to the general public with the hope that it may fill a gap in the history of the Textile Industry too long neglected.

      AMERICAN LACE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

      EDWARD F. WALKER, Executive Director

      Contents

      History of Lace

      Hand-Made Lace

      Pillow or Bobbin Lace

      European Centers of Pillow Lace Manufacture

      Hand-Made Lace in The U. S.

      The Origin and Chronological Development of Lace Machines

      The Origin of Lace Machines

      Warp Lace Frames

      Leavers Lace Industry in the United States

      Yarns Used in Making Leavers Laces

      Cotton Lace Yarns

      Preparation of Yarns

      Brass Bobbin Yarns

      Warp Yarns

      Gimp Yarns

      Outline Threads

      Cotton Yarns Used in Making Specific Styles

      Silk

      Rayon

      Worsted

      Rubber

      Metal Threads

      Yards Per Pound of Metal Threads

      The Manufacture of Leavers Lace

      Preparatory Work on The Yarns

      1. Slip Winding

      2. Warping and Beaming

      3. Brass Bobbin Winding

      4. Bobbin Pressing

      5. Steaming and Cooling

      6. Bobbin Inspecting

      Carriage

      7. Threading

      8. Bobbin Stripping

      9. Entering in Machine (Warps and Beams)

      Theory of Lace Making By Machine

      Principles of the Leavers Lace Machine

      10. The Leavers Lace Machine and Its Operation

      Principle of the Jacquard Mechanism on the Leavers Lace Machine

      11. Brown Inspection and Mending

      12. Washing and Scouring

      13. Silk Degumming

      14. Bleaching

      15. Extracting

      16. Dyeing

      17. Extracting

      18. Starching

      19. Tentering or Dressing

      20. White Inspection and Mending

      21. Hand Drawing

      22. Acetone Separating

      23. Clipping

      24. Jennying

      25. Packaging and Ticketing

      26. Designing

      27. Drafting

      28. Reading

      29. Punching

      30. Lacing

      31. Correcting

      Lace Styles

      Glossary of Leavers Machine-Made Lace

      HISTORY

      OF LACE

      Lace, The Aristocrat of Textile Fabrics,

      is truly the fabric of romance.

      No textile fabric, says the historian, has contributed more largely to the elegance and luxuries of life than lace, the most delicate of them all. Lace is a decorative, open-work fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads of various fibers. It is not usually purchased for its wearing qualities nor for the purpose of preserving bodily warmth, but is used almost exclusively for glamour. It is purely a luxury fabric and is one of the highest forms of textile artistry and skill.

      Although lace as a textile fabric is known to all, comparatively few know the story of its origin, development, and present day manufacture. It is the purpose of this book to present the story of lace so that everyone may better understand and appreciate this marvelous fabric.

      Possibly the earliest use of the word lace as the designation of a textile fabric, is to be found in an ancient rule for English Nuns, which dates from 1210. It developed its meaning as applied to decorative open-work in the 16th century, before which period the word was used in conjunction with another word of a qualifying nature, shoe-lace, corset-lace, sleeve-lace, etc., and it was also applied to the fancy braids or ties used in

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