Plate 107.

Figure 1 (at top). Machine-made net in the piece.

Figure 2. The same kind of net with stitches dropped at regular intervals to serve as guides for cutting it into footing, or strips for embroidering or darning as trimming lace.

Between Figures 1 and 2 are shown samples of beading, or purling, to be sewn on the edge of the trimming lace.

(Plates 107–109 show net made by machine at the “lace shop” established and operated by Dean Walker in Medway, Massachusetts, between 1818 and 1827. See Introduction, pp. 4–5; also Plate 110 and caption. The originals shown are in the possession of Dean Walker’s granddaughter, Miss Sophia A. Walker, of New York City.)