Nottingham Curtain
A makeshift curtain at Scranton Lace's factory floor. Scranton Lace, once the employer of Hillary Clinton's father and grandfather, was one of the world's largest producers of fine, Nottingham lace. The looms were precision calibrated to read punch cards that contained encoded instructions for weaving the fine, intricate lacework. Revolutionary for its time, Scranton's looms represented the primacy of mechanization and automation in an age that benefitted greatly from mass production.
Nottingham Curtain
A makeshift curtain at Scranton Lace's factory floor. Scranton Lace, once the employer of Hillary Clinton's father and grandfather, was one of the world's largest producers of fine, Nottingham lace. The looms were precision calibrated to read punch cards that contained encoded instructions for weaving the fine, intricate lacework. Revolutionary for its time, Scranton's looms represented the primacy of mechanization and automation in an age that benefitted greatly from mass production.