The time-honored brand Minglin Lace shines at Milan Design Week 2019

During Milan Design Week 2019, "braIN TAIWAN" met Taiwanese new fashion in Milan. Supermodels Wang Liya (left) and Lin Jiaqi showed off white lace dresses. (Provided by Yifan Integrated Marketing)

The beauty of lace. (Provided by Minglin Lace)

Since the Middle Ages, women have always been attracted by the elegant, romantic, noble, dreamy and sweet temperament of lace. Minglin Lace hopes that through cooperation with domestic and foreign designers, people can re-see the beauty of embroidered lace fabrics and lace fabrics; at the same time, through simple DIY handmade lace, it can convey love and happiness in life.

跨世紀的明林蕾絲

Lin Maosong, the founder of Minglin Lace, worked as a foreign worker in Dashan Underwear Wholesale Company when he was 18 years old. Eight years later, he started a business with his younger siblings. Adhering to "integrity management", "Mingchang Lace Button Company" was founded in 1959. Its comprehensive range of clothing accessories has attracted a steady stream of buyers.

Lin Maosong (2nd from right) takes a photo with his father and younger brother. (Provided by Minglin Lace)

The good times did not last long, the craze for clothing accessories gradually declined, and Mingchang faced a huge impact and test! Lin Maosong resolutely transformed and changed "lace cloth" into his main product. He established Minglin Co., Ltd. (Minglin Lace) in 1964. Since then, he has devoted his life to the production and development of embroidered lace cloth.

Inheriting traditional craftsmanship and high-quality embroidery technology, and adhering to MIT manufacturing in Taiwan, these are the characteristics of Minglin Lace. Delicate texture is the first choice for European and American countries. Lin Yinxue, manager of Minglin, said, "Most of the machines for making embroidered lace fabrics in Taiwan are imported from Japan and Germany. In addition, they do not steal stitches, do not fade, have good technology and good materials. European and American customers I like Taiwan’s sophistication the most.”

With tens of thousands of embroidered lace fabric types and patterns, and more than two to three hundred large-scale customers, Minglin Lace is famous throughout Taiwan for its "Tianma Brand" and is known as the "Little Kingdom of Lace".

The new aesthetics of lace that enters life

However, with the passage of time, the traditional and elegant embroidered lace cloth has gradually been forgotten. After Lin Maosong's two daughters, Lin Shuzhen and Lin Yinxue, took over the business, they refused to let go of the decline of lace, and combined tradition and innovation to develop diversified. In 2014, he founded the "Merosa" and "Little Pegasus" brands, and started from the brand counter of the famous Fucheng store "Lin Department Store" to restart a new page for the "Little Lace Kingdom"!

Lin Maosong's two daughters, Lin Shuzhen and Lin Yinxue, inherited Ming Lin Lai Si. (Provided by Minglin Lace)

They invite designers to collaborate and inspire lace creation. Wedding studios, fashion designers, handicraft experts, and floral stylists are all good partners for Minglin. At the same time, we have gone deep into various parts of Taiwan to hold lectures, offer courses, participate in exhibitions, and cooperate with industry and academia to widely apply lace into daily life, integrate it into local sentiments, and launch a series of products such as phoenix flower and orchid flower.

DIY handmade lace tutorial. (Provided by Minglin Lace)

The Lin sisters, who grew up in Lai Dui, have an indescribable feeling of gratitude and care for Lai Dui. From the original simple production to the new field of design and development, for them, it was like embarking on an in-depth lace journey, and they also realized that lace is so charming and so healing!