Method of manufacturing three-dimensional lace material and three-dimensional lace material manufactured by the method

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional lace material is disclosed. The method includes a fabric-knitting step for knitting a planar lace fabric including an ornamental lace portion, a scallop portion continuously adjacent the ornamental lace portion and a waste-fabric portion on the opposite side to the ornamental lace portion across the scallop portion; a three-dimensional forming step for forming the planar lace fabric obtained by the material-knitting step into a predetermined three-dimensional shape by setting the fabric to a three-dimensional forming device with fixing the fabric to the device at the waste-fabric portion thereof and placing the scallop portion at an end of the three-dimensional shape to be formed; and an eliminating step for eliminating the waste-fabric portion along the scallop portion from the three-dimensional lace fabric obtained by the three-dimensional forming step, thereby to obtain the three-dimensional lace material. The invention relates also to a three-dimensional lace material manufactured by such method.

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