The Historical Development of Lace

In the18th century, lace was also used to decorate the collars and socks of European men. Europeans and Americans use women's clothes more, and wedding dresses and evening dresses are the most used. With the popularity of romantic fashion and women's clothing in the period of Crolin and Bathel. Compared with18th century, it is nothing more than used. In the 20th century, the artistic style and fashion update began to intensify again. For more than 200 years, the demand in Europe and North America has been increasing, and many countries produce handmade lace for them, including China. Xujiahui area in Shanghai was once an important processing and production area in19th century and early 20th century. This is also the last peak of decoration. Later, although it still played an important role in women's wear, children's wear, evening wear or wedding dresses, there was no golden age of lace in every year of the 20th century. Lace began to appear frequently in China in the early 1980s. Appear in the new fashion. Coupled with the increasing popularity of transparent clothes and perspective clothes. Suddenly become a star in fashion. In women's wear, it has always played the role of finishing touch. Lace always seems to be associated with romance and luxury, and layered lace is still a woman's favorite. That kind of soft dreamy lump is like a dream that a woman can't finish all her life. Lace originated in Europe in the16th century and is widely used in the decoration of high-grade textiles and clothing. At first, his production process was quite complicated. Unlike traditional hook making or embroidery, it is made of silk thread or yarn according to the pattern effect. When making, it is necessary to thread the silk thread on the small shuttle. Each shuttle is only the size of a thumb. Less complicated patterns need dozens or hundreds of such shuttles, while larger patterns need hundreds of shuttles. When making, the pattern is placed at the bottom, and different weaving, knotting and winding methods are adopted according to the pattern.

In the last century, lace developed from the traditional way of weaving, knotting and winding to the present mechanization. Lace machine woven by mechanical chain blocks greatly enriches the types and patterns of lace. Its use has also expanded from clothing decoration to home decoration, accessories and other fields, and the demand has increased rapidly, and the product variety has become more abundant, which has promoted the rapid development of lace industry.

Lace started late in China. Before 1980s, lace weaving machines were mainly imported from abroad. In the early 1990s, Guangzhou and Zhejiang absorbed the characteristics of foreign machines, combined with the actual situation in China, independently developed the first domestic lace machine, and took a lace factory in Shenzhen as a pilot unit. Since then, the problem that lace machines in China need to be imported has ended.

But after 2000, lace production gradually changed from mechanical chain knitting lace machine to computer lace machine. The appearance of computer lace machine has brought revolutionary changes to lace industry. It overcomes the complicated production process of chain block knitting in lace machine, tends to adopt advanced computer control, strengthens the scale of automatic production, saves time and improves efficiency.