When Mary Salmon of Northville looks at a piece of vintage handmade lace, she sees much more than carefully crafted, delicately beautiful geometric patterns spun from threads. What she sees, instead, ...

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...

Lyn Bailey believes the first time she saw someone making lace was when she was a child visiting Belgium. And she’s been fascinated with it ever since. “Lace is my passion,” says Bailey, of Lancaster ...

It is no coincidence that the Dallas Lace Society counts among its members a mother of 10 and several women fluent in multiple forms of needle arts. Lace making is a labor of love that demands ...

Virtually all lace today is made on machines. Handmade lace, so dear to old ladies, is an insignificant item in world trade, and most of it is made not in Europe but in China. France and England are ...