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What is lace?
Lace is a Chinese character, and the pinyin is huā biān, which is a kind of embroidery, also called "embroidery". It is a decorative hollow product made of cotton thread, hemp thread, silk thread or various fabrics by embroidery or weaving. The specific explanation is as follows:

1, a kind of embroidery: a kind of embroidery, also called "embroidery". It is a decorative hollow product made of cotton thread, hemp thread, silk thread or various fabrics by embroidery or weaving. Legend has it that it was introduced into China from Europe in the late Qing Dynasty. As early as the 4th ~ 5th century AD, there were similar embroidered laces and embroidered edges in ancient Egyptian tombs.

2. Decorative Ribbon Fabric: Ribbon fabrics with various patterns are used as decorative fabrics and as inserts or edging for various clothes, curtains, tablecloths, bedspreads, lampshades, bedding, etc. Lace can be divided into four categories: weaving, knitting, embroidery and knitting. Lace interwoven with silk and yarn is widely used in ethnic minorities in China, so it is also called ethnic lace.

3. Lace is in China: Lace started late in China. Before 1980s, lace weaving machines were mainly imported from foreign countries. In the early 1990s, a company in Jiangsu absorbed the characteristics of foreign machines and independently developed the first domestic lace machine as a pilot unit, thus ending the problem of domestic imports of lace machine.