The lace that ordinary people know is just the beauty emanating from the surface of lace, and many people don’t know its true meaning. Lace is a huge system, but very few people really understand it. Let us go and take a look today!
my country’s lace weaving industry started late. Before the 1980s, lace weaving machines were mainly imported from foreign countries. As time progressed to the early 1990s, Guangzhou and Zhejiang absorbed the characteristics of foreign machines and combined with the actual domestic situation, independently developed my country’s first lace machine, and used a lace factory in Shenzhen as a pilot unit. This has ended the problem of the need to import lace machines in my country.
There are many ways to produce lace. The main machines used are: Levis, Raschel and Karl Mayer lace machines. The classification is also mainly divided into the following categories:
1. Levis lace must be produced by specialized Levis leavers machines, which are rare in China. Basically, in Europe, France’s Noyang company is more famous. This kind of lace is the most high-end.
2. Raschel lace. This type of lace is produced using a Raschel lace machine. The main machine is the German Karl Mayer lace machine. There are many such machines in Changle, Fujian and Shantou, Guangdong.
3. The lace produced by computer embroidery machines is produced by computer embroidery machines. For example, water-soluble lace is produced by this type of machine.
Currently, there are the following types of common lace.
Water-soluble lace
This is a lace pattern woven with polyester thread or viscose filament On a piece of lining paper, use higher temperature water to dissolve the lining paper after completion, leaving only the lace body, which is called water-soluble lace.
Chemical fiber lace
This is a general term, its materials are mainly nylon and spandex , the common chemical fiber lace is generally thin and hard, and may feel a bit prickly if it comes into direct contact with the skin, but this type of lace is cheap, has many patterns, colors, and is not easy to break.
Cotton lace
It is usually embroidered with cotton thread on a cotton interlining A kind of lace made by cutting out the hollow part of cotton in the shape of lace. It is a relatively common type and can be seen on many clothes.
Cotton lace is mostly cheap, not easy to break, can be ironed at high temperatures, and feels good, but there are fewer styles.
Embroidery lace
Embroidery lace is made of cotton and polyester on a layer of gauze Use such thread to embroider the lace shape, and then cut off the outer outline. Since the interlining is made of gauze, the feel will change depending on the hardness of the gauze. However, it is generally believed that softer embroidery lace made of softer gauze is better. .
Its advantages are that it feels soft and smooth, not easy to wrinkle, can be folded, and has good elasticity, but it cannot be ironed at high temperatures, has less shape, and is easy to tear.
Did you see that even lace has so many categories, so when someone asks you what fabric you like in the future, don’t just say “lace”. After all, we are all in the textile industry, so it will appear that we are unprofessional~
