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ever, raised into pile at each stroke, the web would have simply 

 a striped appearance ; and if it were raised only at intervals, the 

 figure would be given in relief, but would still be merely strip- 

 ed. In order to produce a properly coloured pattern, several 

 coloured yarns are arranged, so that any one of them may be 

 raised into pile between the same two permanent warp threads. 

 Their number is generally five, so that, by their irregular as- 

 cent to the surface, the striped appearance is almost broken 

 up. Still, however, the web is essentially striped, and though 

 the designer be not nearly so hampered as in the Kidderminster 

 texture, he is still seriously incommoded in his choice. Let us 

 suppose a board painted in minute coloured stripes. After 

 these have dried, let another coating of coloured stripes be laid 

 on, and so for five coats, each differing from the preceding : 

 the painter may now form an idea of the difficulties encoun- 

 tered by the carpet designer, — let him set to work, by scraping 

 away the different coats, to produce a pattern. But there is 

 another annoyance; in order to produce the smallest speck of 

 any particular colour, a thread of that colour must traverse the 

 whole pattern ; and that thread may displace some other which 

 would have been advantageously brought in elsewhere. On 

 account of the very different rates at which the coloured threads 

 are taken up, these cannot be wound on one beam, but have 

 to be placed each on a bobbin by itself. 



To remedy the inconvenience of this texture, Mr Whytock 

 contrived his method of partially dyeing the yarns ; but we 

 cannot fully understand the value of the contrivance till we 

 have glanced at another kind of carpet texture. f 



The Turkey carpet is the simplest in its texture of all the 

 carpets, and at the same time is almost unlimited in the choice 

 of colours. Let us suppose ourselves seated at a common loom, 

 and that immediately after having thrown a shot we commence 

 to tie on every thread of the warp a small bunch of coloured 

 worsted, varying the colour according to our fancy. This 

 completed, let two or three shots be thrown, and well driven 

 up ; and then another row of coloured worsteds tied on. It is 

 clear that in this way we could produce any pattern, and that 

 no more of any particular colour is wanted than is sufficient to 

 produce the required effect : nay more, the colours being put 



