Metallic Lace Trim blends a vintage silhouette with a futuristic looking component, perfect for embellishing waistlines and sleeves, or creating eye-catching table runners. Although metallic garments often look like something from the future, gold and silver have been woven into the garments of kings and nobility since ancient times. Originally, a metal strip would be wrapped around a fiber, whether it be cotton or silk, to create a metallic thread. Often the fiber core would still be visible, to blend the metallic with the color and make the garment more attractive. The first modern metallic fiber was produced in 1946 by the Dobeckmum Company. Nowadays, aluminum and stainless steel are the metals of choice to create metallic fabrics, as well as the always popular lurex fiber. Bring a gold lace top to life with metallic lace trim, or create statement metallic trimmed throw pillows.