Embroidery lace machine

An embroidery lace machine comprising:

• a plurality of different types of mechanisms including at least a needle, a shuttle, a shuttle box, a thread carrier and a borer, each mechanism being brought into and out of operation by connection to and disconnection from a main driving shaft of the embroidery lace machine at predetermined times during rotation of the main driving shaft;
• a signal generating means for generating a reference pulse each time the main driving shaft is in a reference rotational position and for generating a train of angular position pulses indicating rotational displacement of the main driving shaft from the reference position;
• and
• counting means for counting a number of angular position pulses following the reference pulse and for generating a timing control signal to separately actuate operation of each mechanism when the number of angular position pulses counted by the counting means coincides with a respective preset count associated with that mechanism.