lace history

Cotton and polyester Lace, is one of the most common and beautiful clothing accessories and trims  in clothing. Lace, English lace, translated as lace, lace an exotic. The earliest garment accessories polyester lace is made of crochet hand-woven mesh. 18th-century European men's collars and socks were also decorated with cotton and polyester lace. 

The history of the production process of garment accessories lace

Europeans and Americans use more on women's clothing than wedding dresses and evening dresses. With the popularity of romantic fashion and women's wear in the period of Creolelin and Bath. Use from the 18th century than nothing. In the 20th century, fashion renewal in the artistic style was even more intensified. Demand in Europe and North America has been increasing for more than 200 years. Many countries have produced handmade lace for them, including of course China.

The 19th century and early 20th century Shanghai Xujiahui district was an important area for processing and production. At this time, it is also the highest point of the decoration. Although it still occupies an important position in female children's wear, evening wear, or wedding dresses, it has never experienced the golden period of lace in the 20th century. In the early 1980s, lace began to appear in front of people. Debut with new fashion. Plus the gradual popularity of transparent and see-through installation. Suddenly became the star of the fashion industry. In women's clothing, the finishing touch.

Clothing accessories lace lace, originated in Europe in the 16th century, is widely used in luxury textile and apparel decoration. At first, his production process was rather complicated. Unlike the traditional hooking or embroidery, the pattern effect was made by braiding yarns or yarns. The yarn was wound around a small shuttle. Each shuttle only has the size of the thumb. A less complicated pattern requires tens or hundreds of such small shuttles, and larger patterns require hundreds of small shuttles. During the production, the pattern is placed below, and different patterns, knots, and loops are used to create the pattern.

In the last century, lace has evolved from the traditional methods of knitting, knotting, and winding to the current mechanization. The mechanical chain knitting lace machine greatly enriches the lace types and patterns. Its use has also expanded from apparel decoration to home furnishing and accessories and other fields, and the rapid increase in demand, product variety is more abundant, and promoted the rapid development of the lace industry.

China's lace started relatively late. Prior to the 1980s, weaving lace machines were mainly imported from foreign countries. In the early 1990s, Guangzhou and Zhejiang provinces took in the characteristics of foreign machines, combined with the actual situation in China, independently developed China's first lace machine and passed a lace factory in Shenzhen as a pilot unit. This ended the issue of the import of lace machines in China.

After 2000, lace production is gradually transitioning from mechanical chain knitting lace machines to computer lace machines. The emergence of computer lace machines has also brought about a revolutionary change in the lace industry. It overcomes the complicated production process of the mechanical chain knitting lace machine, tends to adopt advanced computer control, strengthens the automated production scale, saves time, and improves efficiency.