Nottingham lace curtain machine

Machine lace curtains 1918
Spooling on a Nottingham lace curtain machine 1918

The lace curtain machine is a lace machine invented by John Livesey in Nottingham in 1846. It was an adaptation of John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine. It made the miles of curtaining which screened Victorian and later windows.[1]

  1. ^ Farrell 2007, p. 8.