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Compartment 9, yarns, dyed. 



„ 10, three specimens of figured weaving ; 



Tusser spun cloth. 

 „ 11, three specimens of figured weaving ; 



Tusser spun cloth. 

 „ 12, three specimens of figured weaving; 



Tusser spun cloth. 



APPENDIX IV. 



Description of the Machinery used in Italy and France 

 for reeling cocoons, and the mode of using it. 



Cocoon Reeling Machine, made by Messrs. J. Berthaud et 

 Co., Inge'nieurs Mecaniciens, Rue de Veaddme, 132, 

 Lyon. 



This machine has been drawn on Plates LXIV., LXV., 

 and LXVL, very accurately, to a scale of 1 inch to the 

 foot, in order that it may be reproduced in India should 

 it be found inconvenient to send to Europe for them. 



It is in principle and practice the best form of reeling, 

 and that most commonly used in the South of France and 

 Italy. Should its use become general in India, the 

 refinement in the qualities of both mulberry-worm silks 

 and the wild silks would be so marked and bettered that 

 much larger trade would be done. Although vigorous 

 efforts were made by Government in 1831 to improve the 

 reeling of the mulberrry-worm silk of Bengal, and with a 

 large amount of success, the natives seem to have become 

 indifferent, and the qualities of most Bengal silks have 

 fallen from their standard, and are not inquired for in 

 proportion to their deserts if properly reeled. I should 

 indeed be glad if these remarks may have some effect in 

 stimulating the Government, and those in Indian interests 

 in the silk trade, to insist on the European modes of reel- 

 ing in all silk produced for export. If this were made 

 a condition we should be able to rely more on our own 

 dependencies for silk instead of having to buy such large 

 quantities from China or Japan. 



The lettering indicates the same parts of the machine in 

 each drawing: — 



A. Cast-iron framework of the reeling machine. 



B. Windlass for supplying the motive power ; this may be 

 substituted by a pulley for steam power. 



C. Driving wheel, cast-iron. 



