Lace machine

Lace machines took over the commercial manual production of lace.

At first part laces like Honiton and Brussels profited to a certain degree from mechanisations, as one could collect affordable motives to mount on machine made net after a while. Also new types emerged based on net, such as Carrickmacross and Tambour lace. Until by 1870 virtually every type of hand-made lace had its machine-made copy. It became increasingly difficult for lacemakers to make a living from their work. In England most of the handmade lace industry had disappeared by 1900. Until the late 1960s few were interested in tracing and curating old laces and few courses where available to keep the technique alive.