Image: 1911 Britannica - Lace 49

Description: Fig. 49.--Section of Lace Machine. E is the cylinder or beam upon which the lace is rolled as made, and upon which the ends of both warp and weft threads are fastened at starting. Beneath are w, w, w, a series of trays or beams, one above the other, containing the reels of the supplies of warp threads; c, c represent the slide bars for the passage of the bobbin b with its thread from k to k, the landing bars, one on each side of the rank of warp threads; s, t are the combs which take it in turns to press together the twistings as they are made. The combs come away clear from the threads as soon as they have pressed them together and fall into positions ready to perform their pressing operations again. The contrivances for giving each thread a particular tension and movement at a certain time are connected with an adaptation of the Jacquard system of pierced cards. The machine lace pattern drafter has to calculate how many holes shall be punched in a card, and to determine the position of such holes. Each hole regulates the mechanism for giving movement to a thread. Illustration from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, article Lace.
Title: 1911 Britannica - Lace 49
Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Vol. 16.
Author: Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
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License: Public domain
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