Tulle, Fabric
TULLE, FABRIC, a term restricted in England to a fine bobbin-net of silk, used for veils, scarves, millinery purposes, and trimmings of ladies' dresses, etc. The French used the word to mean all machine-made lace the basis of which is the intertwisted network made on the bobbin-net machine. The word is derived from the town of Tulle in France.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
