The more miraculous among these models can embroider, monogram, create lace and even transform drawings and photographs into embroidered objets d’art—all with a few swipes on their touch screens.

Plauen lace has its roots in a centuries-old tradition of textile manufacturing in Saxony, ... "There were about 20,000 embroidery machines in the region back then," Reinhardt says, ...

It also has a rich legacy of embroidery and lace. ... a French inventor who worked towards improving textile manufacturing, developed an embroidery machine that used 300 needles simultaneously.

A hundred years ago, lace was Nottingham's dominant industry with 40,000 employees – a third of the city's working population. One-by-one the factories have closed down and today only one remains.

In 1910, during the French colonial period, Van Lam villagers Dinh Ngoc Henh and Dinh Ngoc Xoan learned the lace craft from French artisans and brought it to the village, giving Van Lam a second craft ...