page_title: Bobbinet
section_title: Context
hierarchical_section_title: Bobbinet / Context
caption_attribution_description: English: Bobbinet structure (David Eilbeck, TTE website) Français&#160;: Structure du tulle bobin
context_page_description: The Bobbinet machine is a plain-net lacemaking machine invented and patented by John Heathcoat in 1808, and with a slight modification it was patented again in 1809. This machine was known as the Old Loughborough. Heathcoat continued to improve his machine. There were many breaches of his patent. The 'Circular' was an improvement, designed in 1824, by William Morley. As it gained ascendency, its distinctive name was dropped; it became the bobbinet and Heathcoats machíne the Old Loughborough.
context_section_description: Bobbinet tulle or genuine tulle is a specific type of tulle which has been made in the United Kingdom since the invention of the bobbinet machine. Heathcoat coined the term "bobbin net", or bobbinet as it is spelled today, to distinguish this machine-made tulle from the handmade "pillow lace". Pillow lace, called so because of the pillow used to produce handmade bobbin lace. Machines based on his original designs are still in operation today producing fabrics in Perry Street, Chard, Somerset, UK.
  When bobbinet is woven with spots, it is called point d'esprit.
caption: Bobbinet structure
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