^S6 VERY FINE CLOTH. 



The method is Th^ method as it was explained to a Committee of the 

 verj simple. Society, consists in adding more thread of the warp within each 

 of the warn dent or split ofthe reed than in the common way ; for instance, 

 than usual are that where in the common mode there are only two threads in 

 ?wccn it~ ^^^ reed, there are upon his plan three or four. 

 dents <jfthe The weft or shoot is thrown in the common way with a 



'*'^' single thread. 



When the cloth is woven and taken out of the loom, it has 

 the appearance of being barred or striped, the cane of the 

 reed occasioning that part of the cloth struck with it to look 

 thinner, owing to the threads'of the warp being further apart. 

 Itcwmes out The cloth is then to be wet in water, and in that state to be 



wett*ed^aiid^^° repeatedly stretched across by the hands backwards and for- 

 pjiiled. wards corner ways ; by this means the threads, which appa- 



rently formed the stripe, or close part of the cloth, separate 

 from each other, and become diffused at equal distances. 

 The appearance of stripes being entirely removed, the cloth 

 becomes of unexampled fineness, and extremely regular in lis 

 texture. This operation must, in cotton fabrics, be performed 

 before the cloth goes to the bleach-ground. 



Silk goods, on being taken out of the loom, must be wet and 

 well rubbed, as in common mode of washing, and then 

 stretched backwaros and forwards, as in the manner above 

 directed for cotten goods. 



In silk goods, the warp and weft may be both aUt« ; in 

 cotton goods the weft maybe softer, but of th^ same fineness. 

 Mr. Neven stated, that fine linen cambrics may be mad* 

 much superior to any hitherto msfle in France ; and that though 

 there are three thready v^-tthin each dent, or split of the reed, 

 whilst the cloath Is weaving, yet the headles or yields lift up 

 the thfoads alternately throughout the whole breadth of the 

 cfoth, and that there are about 250 shoots in an inch. 



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