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rural weavers has still survived ; while at the 

 same time one invariably meets, even nowadays, 

 with the remark that relative well-being is 

 prominent in the villages in which weaving 

 is connected with agriculture. 



Up to the present time, M. Ardouin Dumazet 

 writes, " there is an industry which gives 

 work to many hand-looms in the villages ; it is 

 the weaving of various stuffs for umbrellas and 

 ladies' boots." Amiens is the chief centre for 

 this weaving.* In other places they are making 

 dresses out of Amiens velvet and various stuffs 

 woven at Roubaix. It is a new industry ; it 

 has taken the place of the old one, which 

 was making of Amiens a second Lyons. 



In the district of Le Thelle, to the south of 

 Beauvais, there is " a multitude of petty trades, 

 of which one hardly imagines the importance. 

 I have seen," M. Dumazet says, " small factories 

 of buttons made from bone, ivory, or mother- 

 of-pearl, brushes, shoe-horns, keys for pianos, 

 dominoes, counters and dice, spectacle-cases, 

 small articles for the writing-table, handles for 

 tools, measures, billiard keys what not ! . . . 

 There is not one single village, however small, 

 the population of which should not have its own 

 industry." | At the same time it must not 



* Ardouin Dumazet, vol. xvii., p. 242. 

 t Ibid., vol. xvii., pp. 100, 101. 



