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IN its treatment of scientific and technical research and development, the report of the Board of Trade Working Party on the Lace Industry*, of which Miss L. S. Sutherland was chairman and the late Prof. J. M. Gulland a member, follows similar lines to earlier reports from ‘working parties’ dealing with other textile industries. Like most of the latter, the machine-lace industry grew out of a craft, that of traditional hand-lace, and was not born of scientific research. In addition, it has always been, and still is, essentially a cotton industry, and in its essentials the industry remains the same as in the days of our grandfathers.
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Scientific Approach to the Lace Industry. Nature 160, 879–880 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160879a0
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