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Castletopped Nottingham frowning over the Trent has long outlived its reputation as a stronghold intended originally to overawe the inhabitants of that great forest which stretched northward from the boundary of the nightingale to Eboracum. Carelessness on the part of monarchs only too liberal with what was not their own, and rapacity on the part of landholders has left little of the vast forest once the property of the nation. Nearly the whole of Sherwood has been gradually absorbed in the so-called "Dukery," perhaps the most beautiful tract of forest land in England. This region, however, has become merely a playground for Nottingham, Sheffield, and the suburbs of Nottingham in which the lace manufacture is presently carried on. Perhaps the term suburb is here loosely applied, for the lacemanufacture of Nottingham is somewhat widely distributed in its environs, such as Basford, Kimberley, and other places of some importance, requiring railway communication with the town itself. Few facts in industrial history are more remarkable than the multiplication of lace-factories large and small in and around Nottingham during the past few No. 8 years. For some reason the smart thriving town has been a focus of industry from very ancient times. When the castle, now a Museum of Art, was the frequent abode of King John, who had a hunting lodge in Sherwood Forest near Mansfield, despite that possibly mythical personage Robin Hood, the town was already in the hands of weavers, who made large quantities of woollen cloth, whether dyed of Lincoln green or not does not appear. The same industry prevailed when Roger Mortimer was captured in the castle, and when Charles I. raised his royal standard upon its highest turret; but between these events and the stirring times before the first Reform Bill, during which its stronghold was burned to the ground, Nottingham had lost its cloth manufacture and acquired two others, the stocking and machine lace industries, the latter of which appears to have been a distinct outgrowth of Richard Lee's famous invention. Before undertaking to describe the growth and practice of machine lace-making, it may perhaps be well to set forth briefly and broadly the process by which point-lace properly so-called grew, or rather degenerated, into the flimsy forms which encouraged its imitation in bobbin-net, for it should be borne in mind that the early forms of machine lace were very far from possessing the perfection subsequently accomplished by extreme refinement of ingenuity, and constant practice quickened by keen competition. It would be rash to aver at the present moment, when plenty of engines are made, which in the words of Lord Charles Beresford "do everything but talk," that it would be impossible to imitate the earlier, grander, and more massive forms of lace in the loom, but it may be imagined that they do not II 2 |