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| Narrator: Lace began as a fringe fabric. |
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| Back in the middle ages, |
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| it was handcrafted by European women to trim fashion finery. |
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| The ladies' fingers got a break |
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| with the advent of lace-making equipment in the 19th century. |
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| With mass production, |
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| lace moved from the fringe to the mainstream. |
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| In the material world, lace used to be a luxury, |
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| handcrafted for decorative rather than practical reasons. |
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| Machines now produce lace quickly, |
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| and you don't have to be wealthy to afford it. |
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| To manufacture lace, |
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| hundreds of nylon and polyester threads |
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| unwind simultaneously into a separator. |
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| It arranges the threads in a configuration for manufacturing |
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| and keeps them from tangling as they move forward. |
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| To maintain the formation, |
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| the the threads pass through a comb-like apparatus. |
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| Still in that neat configuration, |
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