[f. BOBBIN + NET.] A kind of machine-made cotton net, originally imitating the lace made with bobbins on a pillow. Also attrib.
1832. Babbage, Econ. Manuf., xxxiii. (ed. 3), 350. The bobbin-net machine occupies little space.
1836. Scenes Commerce by Land & S., 217. The frame net lace, or bobbinet, is a recent invention, manufactured by machinery.
1884. Stubbs’ Mercant. Circular, 19 March, 270/2. The increasing supersession of pillow-made lace by lace bobbinet made by machine power.
