Details of the lace braiding have not been readily available, and known only by a select few. Publications, outside of textile trade literature and patent literature, related to the lace braiding machine are scarce. In general, the lace braiding industry had many trade secrets where knowledge of pattern design, machinery, and operations was confined to an esoteric group of practitioners.
Originally lace was produced by hand as a highly skilled art form requiring years of experience due to its almost infinite design possibilities. Handmade lace can be traced to the fifteenth century in Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands |
Around the beginning of the 19th century lacemaking machines began to reproduce handmade lace increasingly accurately. "Why spend a lot of money buying expensive hand-made lace, when a few pennies would buy you something identical, or even better?" |
In 2007 TEF Braids became the sole practitioner advancing the art of lacemaking for structural composites and advanced apparel and practitioner of the Art of Patterning. |
The Art of Patterning provided lessons of: Unification, Integration, Tension and Balance in creation of Lightweight, Strong, Efficiently Functioning Structures. |
UNIFICATION: Oneness |
Guided by these principles we've begun the creation of a system of exchange to market our wares which we call FreeWErld. |
We envision FreeWErld as a marketplace built upon cooperation and consensus instead of competition. |
A Cooperative Exchange where members build and benefit from a unified, integrated system that is driven to see the earth and it's inhabitants thrive. |
We thought we'de be the first member of the exchange and gift TENSENGRAL to new members of FreeWErld so they could help develop the company then use it's income to construct and sustain the cooperative exchange. |
Sustained through contributions which support the free exchange of goods and services, FreeWErld's hope is to facilitate ways for people find their value and place while providing for their security. |
Our humble beginning |
We envision FreeWErld as a global COOPERATIVE EXCHANGE and COMMUNITY NEXUS where members can build and benefit from a unified, integrated system that is driven to see the earth and it's inhabitants thrive. |
Sustained through CONTRIBUTIONS which support the free exchange of goods and services, FreeWErld will facilitate ways for people find their value and place while providing for their security. |
TENSENGRAL & FreeWErld -- a gift to future generations. We hope you will Be a PART . |
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Brad of Tensengral Freely Offers the bodywear he DESIGNS AND MANUFACTURES, that exhibits these qualities of:
UNIFICATION: |
INTEGRATION : |
BALANCE: |
TENSION: |
