BOBWN-NKT AND MACHINE-MADE LACE.

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Saint-Quentin, Douay, Canibrai, Rouen, Caen, have all in turnbeen the seats of the tulle manufacture. Some of these fabrics areextinct; the others have a very limited trade compared withSaint-Pierre and Lyons.

At Lyons, silk net is mostly made. 18 Dating from 1791, variouspatents have been taken out for its manufacture : these silk netswere embroidered at Condrieu (Rhone), and were (the black espe-cially for veils and mantles) much esteemed, particularly in Spain.

In 1825, the “ tulle bobine grenadine,” black and white, wasbrought out by M. Doguin, who afterwards used the fine silks,and invented that popular material first called “ zephyr,” since“ illusion.” Ilis son, in 1838, brought out the “ tulle Bruxelles.”

BELGIUM.

In 1834, 19 eight bobbin-net machines were set up in Brusselsby Mr. Washer, for the purpose of making the double and tripletwisted net, upon which the pillow flowers are sewn to producethe Brussels application lace. Mr. Washer devoted himself exclu-sively to the making of the extra fine mesh, training up workmenspecially to this minute work. In a few years he succeeded inexcelling the English manufacture; and this net, universallyknown as “ Brussels net,” has for nearly thirty years supersededthe expensive pillow ground, and has thereby materially decreasedthe price of Brussels lace. It is made of English cotton, stated,in the specimens exhibited in 1867, as costing 44 1 . per pound.

MACHINERY LACE.

“ Qui suit si lo metier iv tulle no sera pas un jour, en quelque sorto, un vrai cous-in do dentellifcre, et les bobines do vdritables fusenux manoeuvre's par des mainsmecaniques.”— Aubry, in 1851.

If England boasts tlie invention of bobbin-net, to France mustbe assigned the application of the Jacquard system to the net-frame, and consequently the invention of machinery lace. Shawlsand large pieces in “ run lace,” as it is termed, had previously

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The Caen blondo first suggested the

Tho first net-frame was set up at

Brussels in 1801. Others followed atTermonde, 1817; Ghent, 1828; Sainte-Fosse, &c.