. Godey's lady's book . TWISTED AS BOBBINNET. JACQUARD. which gave the name of bobbinnet to machine-made lace. The manufacture sprang up intowonderful activity in and around Nottingham ;and though it has suffered many fluctuationssince, it still constitutes a very notable depart-ment of Nottingham industry. The cotton usedin making bobbinnet is mostly spun in Lanca-shire. The machines are very costly, and areseldom or never owned by the actual are among the most complicated appa-ratus employed in manufactures; and whenadapted for steam-power, and provided with FOUND IN THE SNOW. 54
. Godey's lady's book . TWISTED AS BOBBINNET. JACQUARD. which gave the name of bobbinnet to machine-made lace. The manufacture sprang up intowonderful activity in and around Nottingham ;and though it has suffered many fluctuationssince, it still constitutes a very notable depart-ment of Nottingham industry. The cotton usedin making bobbinnet is mostly spun in Lanca-shire. The machines are very costly, and areseldom or never owned by the actual are among the most complicated appa-ratus employed in manufactures; and whenadapted for steam-power, and provided with FOUND IN THE SNOW. 547 the Jacquard apparatus for the productionof figured net, the machines are sometimesworth £1,000 a-piece. One set of threads,which we may call the warp, is stretched inparallel lines up and down the machines;another set, equivalent to the weft, is woundround small bobbins; and the meshes of thenetwork are produced by these bobbins twistingin, and around and among the vertical being woven or made, the net
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