Date: 1881
quick rate, and for little money, net with a beautiful even mesh, as perfect as any hand-worked lace made in France.  The pillow-lace makers were full of wrath about this new invention, said it would deprive them of bread, and drove Mr. Heathcote and his machines out of the county.  But though Mr. Heathcote was gone, the pillow lace makers failed to get back their trade.