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CHAPTEll XXXVI.BOBBIN-NET AND MAGllINE-MADB LACE.Fig. 147.

Arms of the Framework Knlitera’ Company.

fo’KENUTH and

BOBBIN-NET.

A sketch of the history of lace would be incomplete without afew words on bobbin-net and machine lace, manufactures whichhave risen to so much importance both in England and France,and have placed lace within the reach of all classes of society. Thesubject has been so ably treated by Mr. Felkin that we refer ourreaders to his excellent work for its full history. 1

Tins manufacture has its epochs :—

1708. Net first made by machinery.

1809. Invention of bobbin-net.

1837. The Jacquard system applied to the bobbin-net machine.

It lias been already told how Barbara Uttmann made a plainthread net in Germany three centuries before any attempt wasmade to produce it by machinery.

This invention is usually assigned to Hammond, a stockingframework knitter of Nottingham, who, examining one day the

1 “History of Machine-wrought Hosiery and Laco Manufacture,” W. Felkin,I'Ondnn, 1807.