BOBBIN-NET AND MAOIIINE-MADE LACE. 403 “ motives,” produce their lace of a liner make and more complex pattern. The Calais lace is an admirable copy of the square- grounded Valenciennes, and is the staple trade of the manufacture. Calais also produces blondes, black and white, silver and gold, the white nearly approaching in brilliancy and whiteness the famed pro ductions of Caen, which, by their cheapness, they have expelled from competition. She also imitates the woollen laces of Le Puy, together with black and white laces innumerable. Almost every description of lace is now fabricated by ma chinery ; 23 and it is often no easy task, even for a practised eye, to detect the difference. Still we must ever be of opinion that the most finished productions of the frame never possess the touch, the finish, or the beauty of the laces made by hand. The invention Eig. 118. Tlic LugeUa, or lacc-bark tree. of machine-made lace has this peculiarity—it has not diminished the demand for the finer products of the pillow and the needle. On the contrary, the rich have sought more eagerly than ever the exquisite work s of Brussels or Aleinjon, since machinery has brought the wearing of lace within the reach of all classes of society. The inner bark of the Lagetta, or lace-bark tree, 24 of Jamaica, may be separated into thin layers, and then into distinct meshes, bearing some resemblance to lace (Fig-148). Of this material, 23 e Tlie machines now iu use are the Nottingham.”—International Exhibition, Circular, Leaver, Transverse Warp, and Jurors’ Report. Pusher. Out of 3552 machines computed 24 Daphne Jaijetta. to be in England in 1862, 214S were at