Museum Schaustickerei

Museum Schaustickerei, Plauen, Germany. Museum Schaustickerei, Plauen, Germany.

The Museum Schaustickerei in Plauen, Germany, houses a large collection of embroidery machines. Plauen is the city where the first hand-embroidery machine was developed that produced tulle lace (in 1881). The museum is housed in a former factory building where machine made embroidery was produced since 1889.

Museum website.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 9 July 2016).

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