*458 APPENDIX. 



Moscow. It is also in this branch that the best 

 machines have to be mentioned.* 



As to the weaving, it is made, as we just saw, on 

 from 20,000 to 25,000 power-looms and from 75,000 

 to 90,000 hand-looms, which partly are at Lyons 

 (from 15,000 to 18,000 hand-looms in 1885) and chiefly 

 in the villages. The workshops, where one might 

 formerly find several compagnons employed by one 

 master, have a tendency to disappear, the workshops 

 mostly having now but from two to three hand-looms, 

 on which the father, the mother, and the children are 

 working together. In each house, in each storey of 

 the Croix Rousse, you find until now such small work- 

 shops. The fabricant gives the general indications as 

 to the kind of stuff he desires to be woven, and his 

 draughtsmen design the pattern, but it is the workman 

 himself who must find the way to weave in threads of 

 all colours the patterns sketched on paper. He thus 

 continually creates something new ; and many im- 

 provements and discoveries have been made by workers 

 whose very names remain unknown. f 



The Lyons weavers have retained until now the 

 character of being the dite of their trade in higher 

 artistic work in silk stuffs. The finest, really artistic 

 brocades, satins and velvets, are woven in the smallest 

 workshops, where one or two looms only are kept. 

 Unhappily the unsettled character of the demand for 

 such a high style of work is often a cause of misery 

 amongst them. In former times, when the orders for 



* La fabrique lyonnaise de soieries. Son passd, son present. 

 Imprim6 par ordre de la Chambre de Commerce de Lyon, 1873. 

 (Published in connection with the Vienna Exhibition/) 



f Marius Morand, U organisation ouvriere de la fabrique lyon- 

 naise; paper read before the Association Francaise pour 1'avance- 

 ment des Sciences, in 1873. 



