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356 "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.