Lace Making (1940-1949)

British Instructional Films Ltd presents a Classroom Film. Designs are created and drafted. Men at drawing boards and easels paint and draw designs. A man “reads“ the designs with a loom-like machine that he works with his feet. Another man operates a machine for punching cards. C/U of the needles punching holes in cards. A machine takes threads to a machine, C/U of the bobbins moving as thread is pulled from them. Threads are wound on to wooden spools. A woman tends to the machine. Brass bobbins are wound and fitted to carriages for weaving. A young boy performs this part of the operation. C/Us of machinery in operation. We see the punched cards being pulled through a machine. C/Us of vast amount of bobbins. We see the lace as it is being made on the machine. A roll of lace curtaining is removed from the machine. Curtaining is then examined, mended and divided into widths. Women check the curtaining and mend areas by stitching them. The curtaining is bleached, dyed, stretched to