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by Cordiali
352 days ago
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If you happen to be there and like this sort of thing, the lace museum in Calais is definitely worth a visit: Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode
https://www.cite-dentelle.fr/en/ It's been about fifteen years since I visited, but they had a big section on the evolution of the techniques. It started from hand lace making, then progressed through periods of different looms. From memory, I'm pretty sure they had a punch-card loom about 200 years old, that was actually operating while I was there. |
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