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After years of declining demand and battling cheap foreign imports, the British lace industry is seeing something of a mini-revival. Profits are up at the handful of surviving lacemakers in and around what was once the heart of the UK lace trade - Nottingham. Names like Gucci, Paul Smith and Dolce & Gabbana now grace the order books, and key to this seems to be the use of older machinery. Some of it dates back to the 19th century, as Mike Young reports. First broadcast on You & Yours, 5 December 2016.