LACE MANUFACTURE. 



LACE MANUFACTURE. 



beiwwath* wmf|.. i. at right angles to the pUne of the w* j 

 a U (Mallei with that plan*. IB the fanner the .uocm- 

 or iateneeUom are driven up close to those baton made, 

 by a eeriee at palatail win* catching la the loop; in the Utter they 



la the runner there are one- 

 efVcarrying implemeoU 



an drivw up by the by or batten. In th 

 liats* a* many as three thousmad bobbin* or i 

 teoaeiMcsuns: in the latter there an Mldon 

 BBMlM. In the former each bobbin twjU 



.seldom more than one or two 



In the former each bobbin twists iu weft-thmd round a 

 wwp-thmd by a series of oscilUtory moremenU like those of a pen- 

 ; in the Utter the twisting is effected rather by the movement, 



F1(. l.-Thmtdi twUtcd Into llnhM. 



of the wrp than thoM of the weft What i the kind of work which 

 thut m.-titji hvc to perform will bo seen by the annexed cuts ; in 



which Jig. \ ahowi roughly how thmda my be twiatod to form 

 while .*/. 2 and 3 show two kinds u actually produced. 



Fig. 2. Kccungulr Meshe*. 



l-'ig. 3. Hexagonal Meshes. 



Fig. 4 shows the essential parts of the bobbin-net machine, affording 

 some notion of its extreme complexity of action. 



Fig. 4.-Eweniiul I'arU of bobbin-iir! Machine. 



The activity to which the invention of the bobbin-net machine gave 

 rise was quite extraordinary, and theprofiU accruing to the various 

 ren at first very large. The productions of the machine 

 the older fabric* by the extraordinary cheapness at which 

 made; ao that bobbin-net, resembling that for which, in 

 lApXlve guineas a yard wen given, b furnished in 1860 for sixpence. 



(QofTOV MjhjnTACTVKK.] 



From certain teti*tie*J detelb which Mr. K.-lkin. ..f Nottingham, 

 the leading authority on this subject, furnished to the Fsctory Com- 

 baiiiiin about the year 1831, it appear* that at that tim. tin 

 of ootton used annually in England for bobbin-net wan alxmt 

 ) Ib*., value about 200,000i. ; that this was made into thirty 

 yards of net, value nearly two millions sterling ; that 160,000 

 wen emplnred in spinning, doubling, weaving, mending, 



pearling, finishing, and embroidering the net ; that the fix< 

 floating capital invested in the bobbin-net manufacture reached as high 

 as two millions sterling ; and that there were from four to five tin 

 bobbin-net machines then in England. Some of these machines pro- 

 duced net twenty quarters or five yards iu width. Many of them imw 

 have as many as 4500 cards with the Jacquard ap]>aratus [J.v 

 AITAKATCH] ; and it may with truth bo said, that such a machine, 

 with its throe or four thousand delicately-constructed brass bobbiux, 

 .in.) provided with a Jacquard apparatus, is one of the most exquisite 

 pieces of mechanism which our manufacturers can exhibit. 



The hand-workers of the Midland Counties rose in violence ngainxt 

 Mr. Hcathcoat and his machines ; and he went to live at Tivcrton, in 

 Devonshire, to be free from interruption. Tivcrton, with off-shoots at 

 and Chard, has become the head-quarters for a particular 



