Hi Mark and everyone I went to the Digital Archives of Documents Pertaining to Lace and searched first for the 'Princess Lace Machine' (no joy) and then the 'Torchon Lace Company' - (joy) and found a 64-page pdf document, which I couldn't open because of my lowly dialup connection (which choked, and I had to restart a few things to get back 'here' etc. etc. - oh well...).. the search notes did tell me that the TLC operated as of 1901 through about a decade or so.
Go here to read the document, it is a paper entitled "American Lace" and should be a useful read ;) <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs/cmc_lace.pdf> http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs/cmc_lace.pdf I then looked at the section 'patents' and saw 'lace machines' - and found this one http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/patents/SAMPLES/00745206.gif Whether or not S. Lewis worked for the TLC bears further research. Your idea that the Princess Lace Machine was offered the year of the World's Fair makes sense to me, although I can't confirm. Maybe there is information in the paper above. HTH Bev in Sooke BC (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) On 10/22/07, Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am finding this conversation about this pillow fascinating. Since I am from the St. Louis area(50 miles east), and the Torchon Lace Company is from St. Louis and is the one that made the Princess Lace Machine(am I correct in my thinking?), this has me interested. And it is also interesting to note that the Princess Lace machine was made in 1904 which also happened to be the year of the World's Fair in St. Louis, Mo. Any correlation there and wonder if it was presented at the 1904 World's Fair? Any one have thoughts on the history of that? Trying to get my facts straight....... - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
