Lace, ancient and modern; Comprising a history of its origin and manufacture, with instructions concerning the manner of making it (1880)
Beebe, C. D., Mrs · New York, Sharps Publishing Company · leaf 259
254 LACE, ANCIENT AND MODERN. elasticity of the material, which prevented exact measure- ment. The best net has small, regular meshes, the hexagons being perfectly regular. Heathcote carried on his manufactures veiy successfully until 1811, when an association of men, called the Luddites, entered… … BOBBINET. In 1837 a Mr. Ferguson, of Nottingham, conceived the plan of applying the Jacquard cards to the bobbinet 'machine. The Jacquard system had been used at Lyons in 1824 with the Mechlin frame, which suggested the idea to Mr. Ferguson. In 1838 he removed to France and settled at Cambrai,…
Lace and lace making
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