Due to the affordability and versatility of Lace it has become both a necessity and fashion statement. Starting from ancient times when the peasant class knitted lace with cheap thread to later acquisition of the lace by royal class who made lace a part of their royal attire. Today, lace has established in the high fashion industry as a necessity to make trendy clothes. Fashion experts use lace to their design line every year to suit the season.
Lace manufacturing is an ancient craft and lace manufacturers existed as early as 2000 BC. However, true lace became a reality only in the 15th and early 16th centuries. True lace is made by lace manufacturers is looped, twisted or braided to other threads independently or from other backing fabric.
Lace manufacturing was limited to hand-made and exquisite to religious clothing and royal garments, from the early fourteenth to early nineteenth century. During the Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries complicated lace fabric was catered to people who could afford its expensive rates. Lace manufacturers had a field day manufacturing and exporting laces made form Flemish linen.
Lace manufacturing took a faster turn with the advent of lace manufacturing machines. Laces made of different fiber - silk, polyester, rayon etc started replacing cotton lace. Combination of these fibers also became possible with these machines through laces made from cotton or polyester or a combination of both fibers. Lace exports in the lace manufacturing countries increased manifold due to the lace making machines.
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