Hexagonal machine-made net fabric used in lacemaking.
1 In bobbin net making; men working machines, 18s.
2 From this abstract, we may form some judgement of the importance of the bobbin net trade.
3 The bobbin net machine occupies little space; and is, from that circumstance, well adapted for a domestic manufacture.
4 The exports of bobbin net are in great part to Hamburgh, for sale at home and at Leipzic and Frankfort fairs.
5 Thus an additional facility was afforded for the construction of these bobbin net machines: and the conclusion was not difficult to be foreseen.
6 The principal part of the hand-machines employed in the bobbin net manufacture are worked in shops, forming part of, or attached to, private houses.
7 Bobbin net machinery now at work in the Kingdom
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