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Title: LACE MAKING

Reference number: 1754

Date: 1947c

Sponsor: British Instructional Film Ltd

Production company: Pathe Production

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.00 mins

Description: A demonstration of the jacquard mechanism in the making of lace curtains.

Teaching notes held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

You can also view a preview copy of this film on British Pathe website at https://www.britishpathe.com/video/lace-making [last accessed 06/06/2018]

Credits: A Classroom film

Shotlist: Credits (.13); Lace making (.21); The designs are created and drafted (.35); General shots of this (.54); The designs are read and the cards punched and laced. (1.02); General shots of this (1.28); Shot of winding spools (1.48); Cotton is wound on to wooden spools. (1.53); General shots of same (2.18); Brass bobbins are wound and fitted to carriages for weaving (2.27); General views of same (3.03); The cards have been fitted to the weaving machine (3.11); General shots of weaving mechanism in progress (4.26); A roll of plain lace curtaining is removed from one of the machines (4.35); Shot of same (5.45); Curtaining is then examined, mended and divided into widths (5.55); Shots of women doing this work (6.13); It is bleached, dyed, stretched to width and dried. (6.23); General shots of same and men at work. (6.47); General views women stretching and drying cloth (7.02); The material is folded and packed (7.11); General shots of men doing this work (7.28); General views of finished articles (7.45); ecs (7.53)