Aah! Inside tips on buying lace

	Buying lace is much more difficult than buying normal dress fabric and needs a great deal more care and attention. Its delicate nature and sheer beauty, introduces many more problems for the manufacturer / finisher to maintain high quality and stability, it is this aspect which a buyer must always be aware of. There is are wide ranges of lace quality in the market place - BEWARE

	Lace as we know it today was created by the ingenuity of the craftsmen of Nottingham England, machine made lace that is. It was as long ago as 1589 that a Nottinghamshire Vicar the Rev William Lee began the first realistic attempt at mechanizing the mechanical manufacture of stockings, and it was the cussedness of Queen Elizabeth the First in refusing a patent which prompted even an more complex development which was the fore-runner of lace manufacture today.

	The designers and developers of Nottingham have always been at the fore-front of lace development and Nottingham lace has long been admired, imitated and copied by envious individuals world wide. However this did not stop Nottingham becoming world renowned as the Centre of lace manufacture and has always been recognised as the Lace Capital of the world with Buyers traveling from all four corners to the Centre of excellence - The Nottingham Lace Market.

	Nottingham grew out of the development of the Lace - Nottingham CREATED machine produced lace and together with an infra structure of associated trades for bleaching, dyeing, and finishing has always employed thousand of experienced operatives . The whole area is steeped in expertise. Historically Nottingham has always produced more lace than all the rest of the world added together.

	Beware of imitators, Nottingham lace is renowned for quality and beauty. There are numerous envious suppliers and manufactures / imitators throughput the world with only limited experience who have climbed on the band Wagon and claim to produce Nottingham Lace - in Japan, Europe, USA. - We ask you? Who is fooling who?

	BEWARE of the old adage "Never mind the quality feel the width" Never mind the width - look for the quality as "A penny mis-spent is a penny lost" remember "A penny well spent is a penny saved"

	Nottingham Lace is world renowned for beauty and quality it is safe, flawless, stable colourfast, run free and will last beyond your lifetime - It is the choice of Royalty and Couturiers. DO NOT BE MISLEAD!

Inside Tips on Buying Lace

BEWARE of the old adage "Never mind the quality feel the width" Never mind the width - look for the quality as "A penny mis-spent is a penny lost" remember "A penny well spent is a penny saved"

BEWARE of the old adage
"Never mind the quality feel the width"

Never mind the width - look for the quality
as
"A penny mis-spent is a penny lost"
remember
"A penny well spent is a penny saved"