An article by George Middleton on machine-made imitations of hand-made lace. The text surveys the machines that produce lace: bobbinet, bobbinet-Jacquard (Pusher), Levers, Nottingham curtain, Bonnaz, Barmen braiding and schiffli embroidery machines, with burnt-out lace as one product. It traces their origins from William Lee's knitting frame and John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine, and says which hand-made laces each machine can copy. Most of the pages are numbered plates (31 specimens) of machine-made pillow and needle-point lace imitations, some paired with hand-made originals such as Valenciennes, Point de Flandre and Binche, and a final 1867 fashion plate.

Second part of George Middleton's article on machine-made imitations of hand-made lace, published just before his death. It gives non-technical descriptions of the bobbinet, bobbinet-Jacquard (Pusher), Levers, schiffli embroidery and Barmen lace machines, including the size, parts and cost of a Levers machine. It then presents plates of machine laces: early knitted laces, a Washington portrait, rococo, Point Milan, Chantecler, Duchesse, Paris 1900 Exposition lace, burnt-out schiffli lace and Barmen versus hand-made laces.