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"In winding, threading, &c., children and young women, 5s.; irregular work, according to the progress of machines.

"In embroidery; children, seven years old and upwards, 1s. to 3s.; work ten to twelve hours; women, if regularly at work, 5s. to 7s. 6d.; twelve to fourteen hours.

"As an example of the effect of the wages of lace embroidery, &c. it may be observed, it is often the case that a stocking weaver in a country village will earn only 7s. a week, and his wife and children 7s. to 14s. more at the embroidery frame."

(430.) The principal part of the hand-machines employed in the bobbin-net manufacture are worked in shops, forming part of, or attached to, private houses. The subjoined list will show the kinds of machinery employed, and classes of persons to whom it belongs.

Bobbin-net Machinery now at work in the Kingdom.

Hand Levers	6-quarter	500	Hand Circulars	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	6-quarter	100
	7-quarter	200
	8-quarter	300			7-quarter	300
	10-quarter	300			8-quarter	400
	12-quarter	30			9-quarter	100
	16-quarter	20			10-quarter	300
	20-quarter	1			12-quarter	100
Hand Rotary	10-quarter	50	Hand Traverse, Pusher, Straight Bolt, &c., averaging 5 quarters
	12-quarter	50
		——				750
		1451				——
						2050
	Total hand machines . . 3501 carried over