orthampton, almost every townand village exhibits this manufacture; but hand-made lace has suffered severely from the in-vention next to be noticed. Bobbinnet.—About 1770 a stocking-weaver atNottingham, named Hammond, made the firstattempt to imitate lace by a slight adaptationof his stocking…
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