1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tulle (fabric)

TULLE, a term restricted in England to a fine bobbin-net of silk, used for veils, scarves, millinery purposes, and trimmings of ladies’ dresses, &c. The French used the word to mean all machine-made lace the basis of which is the inter twisted network made on the bobbin-net machine. The word is derived from the town of Tulle in France.