Jobs, an Italian machine tool builder, specializes in incorporating linear motor technology into large-format machine tools (above). Gruppo Riello Sistemi, among other Italian machine tool builders, ...

Six major lace manufacturing firms remain active today, including Desseilles Internationale, Noyon-Dentelle and Codentel, with 1,000 new styles of Leavers lace said to be produced yearly. Around three ...

In 1907 Mrs. James W. Pinchot proposed to assemble a collection of arts and crafts for the Smithsonian Institution. To start this endeavor, Mrs. Pinchot and her collector friends loaned or donated ...

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...