The art of weaving, by hand and by power by Gilroy Clinton G

Author:Gilroy, Clinton G
Language: deu
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Weaving
Publisher: New York, G. D. Baldwin
Published: 1844-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

The colours now used do not exceed fifty in the most elaborate pro-ductions of the Cashmere loom. Formerly it was said that three hundred shades of colour were used.

The embroidery is not worked with the needle but woven in the cloth. The patterns are read off from a book, and not from a drawing. There is an embroidery language, by which the colours, number, division, and distribution and manipulations of the threads, and the forms and sizes of the flowers, fohage, &c., are symbohcal-ly designated. The looseness of twist in the web is owing to being done by the band ; these objections, however, have all lately been remedied by the ingennity of the Frencli artists, and particularly Messrs. Polino Brothers, of Paris.

SECTION EIGHTH,

LAGE MANUFACTURE.

The history of the arts furnishes no instance of such remarkable changes in the wages of labour, and no such instructive lessons of the influence of mechanical improvements, as that afforded by the manufacture of bobbin-net lace. For some time after its commence-ment, in Nottingham, in the year 1809, it was common for an artizan to abandon bis usual occupation and betake himself to a lace frame, in which he became a share holder, and realize by work-ing upon it, from 20s. to 40s. per day. In consequence of such enormous earnings, Nottingham, with Loughborough, and the neighbouring villages, very soon became the theatre of an epidemic mania, unequalled in modern times.* Many unfortunate individuals, although destitute of mechanical genius or even talent of any kind, tormented themselves both day and night with schemes of bobbins, pushers, lockers, point-bars, and needles of every variety of shape imaginable, tili their minds got permanently bewildered. Indeed, several lost entirely what little sense they once possessed ; and

* For an account of the lace and net-work manufactures in ancient days, the reader is referred to page 5, and from page 41 to 57.

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