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surveillance of a steam-engine. Another patent 

 was taken for these improvements. The reader 

 who desires to have a minute account of these 

 improvements, and of the various parts of the 

 machinery, will be amply gratified by perusing 

 the inventor's own account of the machinery 

 in the article CHAINWORK in the Edinburgh 

 Encyclopaedia. At present it will be sufficient 

 to state, that the muslin to be tamboured was 

 suspended vertically in a frame, which was ca- 

 pable of being moved both in a vertical and a 

 horizontal direction. Sixty or more needles lying 

 horizontally occupied a frame in front of the 

 muslin web. Each of these working needles, 

 as they are called, was attended by a feeding- 

 needle, which, by a circular motion round the 

 working-needle, lodged upon the stem of the 

 latter the loop of the thread. The sixty needles 

 then penetrated the web, and, in order that they 

 might return again without injuring the fabric, 

 the barb or eye of the needle, which resembled 

 the barb of a fishing-hook, was shut by a slider. 

 The muslin web then took a new position by 

 means of the machinery that gave it its horizontal 

 and vertical motion, so that the sixty needles 

 penetrated it, at their next movement, at another 

 point of the figure or flower. This operation 

 went on till sixty flowers were completed. The 

 web was then slightly wound up, that the needles 

 might be opposite that part of it on which they 

 were to work another row of flowers. 



The flowers were generally at an inch distance, 



and the rows were placed so that the flowers 



formed what are called diamonds. There were 



seventy-two rows of flowers in a yard, so that in 



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