High-end fashion houses like Christian Dior, Gucci and Burberry have used the lace, and Kate Middleton’s wedding dress featured the lace for the Royal Wedding. But only a few factories still make it, and they’re facing increasingly strong headwinds to get by.
WSJ visited the Cluny Lace factory in England to see the meticulous process that could soon disappear.
A little history behind his punch card machine (and how it led to todays modern computing technology) can be found in this article about the Jacquard Machine.