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The Story of Lace

Trace the story of lace from it's early days right through to e-commerce era of today.  Understand how it all came about and why Nottingham in the UK became the world renown centre of lace.

Start the story at the beginning and click on the walking man at the bottom of each page to walk right through the story or dip into the section that interests you by pressing one of the buttons at the top of the page.

Looking for something specific, then click for the search facility to search the text pages of the story of lace.

Nottingham Lace is available now as it was in the past, although much more rapidly and more conveniently. Now with cyberspace, electronic commerce and snail mail.

The Lace Market Visitors Centre at
www.lacemarket.co.uk

Elizabeth Cooke's World of Lace at
www.theworldoflace.com