90 



When several of the cocoons are broken or finished, the 

 winder must at once replace them, taking from those that 

 are attached to the " frisons " (button), and throwing with 

 the end of the forefinger under the " filiere " at the top of the 

 basin, so that those ends attach themselves to the remaining 

 thread. The regularity of the " titres " of the silk depends 

 entirely on the regularity with which the thread winding is 

 fed by at once replacing with fresh cocoons any broken down 

 or run out. The " titre " of the silk is found by winding 

 400 turns of silk on the gauge, or 476 metres, and weighing 

 these 476 me'tres with the small weights, called deniers, 

 supplied with the balance. 



Good cocoons will sustain a strong " croiseur." Inferior 

 will only sustain a relatively weak one. 



APPENDIX V. 



Lyons' Chambers of Commerce and Wild Silks. 



In 1880, at the request of Monsieur Konclot, president 

 of the jury, class 34 (silks), at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, 

 and member of the Lyons Chamber of Commerce, and of 

 several other influential gentlemen connected with the silk 

 industry of France, I had the honour to send to the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, Lyons, a collection similar to that ex- 

 hibited by the Government of India at the Paris Exhibition 

 of 1878. 



A copy of the letter acknowledging this gift is appended, 

 together with a translation of an extract from the proceed- 

 ings of the Lyons Chamber of Commerce giving the results 

 of certain experiments on the Indian silks. 



La Chambre de Commerce de Lyon a Monsieur Thomas 

 Wardle. 

 Monsieur, Lyon, le 18 Mai 1880. 



Vous avez bien voulu faire don a notre Chambre de 

 Commerce d'une collection tres complete et tres interessante 

 de papillons, cocons, soies greges et ouvrees, soies teintes, et 

 tissus unis et faconnes, provenant de diverses especes de 

 vers a soie qui, dans lTnde, se nourrissent de feuilles autres 

 que celles du murier. 



