picture shows the huge beam onto which the thread is finally wound before it is put into the machine. It forms a body, constituting the warp of the fabric. ^
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proceed to thread the great lace machine by hand, working from specifications prepared by the draftsmen. Each of the 8,000 tiny threads must be carried up with extreme precision, put into its proper place, and firmly moored. It takes two skilled workers two weeks to thread the lacemaking machine. If placed end to end, the yarns used to thread one machine would reach from New York to San Francisco and back again. Gazing upon this remarkable creation of the brain of man, one is carried back to the days of fairy stories; tales of genii with magic wands are revived in memory as the wonderful machine stands ready to perform its lacemaking miracles.
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