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on by hand, we would not be compelled to reiterate the pattern 

 at each stated distance. Here we have every advantage that 

 we can wish for, excepting this important one, rapidity of for- 

 mation. 



Mr Whytock's method supplies to all the advantages of the 

 Turkey carpet, a rapidity of weaving greater than that of the 

 Brussels fabric. His method may be described thus : If for 

 the five coloured yarns of the Brussels carpet we could substi- 

 tute one yarn dyed of the requisite colour at different places, 

 we would be able to dispense with all the apparatus for pro- 

 ducing the pattern, could make the web with only one body, 

 and work it as a simple velvet. The only difficulty would 

 then be in the dyeing of the thread. 



In order to dye the thread, one yarn is wound on the sur- 

 face of a large drum, of which the circumference is equal to 

 the length required for one copy of the pattern. This drum 

 is graduated so that the dyeing roller can be passed across the 

 yarn at any required place. The design, extended on the or- 

 dinary ruled paper, enables the workman to discover all the 

 places at which a particular colour is to be applied : that done, 

 he changes the colour box, and so proceeds till the whole co- 

 louring is completed. The thread is then taken off the drum, 

 and submitted to the processes for fixing and bringing up the 

 colours. The next thread is then dyed, and so on till the whole 

 warp is finished. The next and the most difficult process is, to 

 place all these yarns side by side upon the beam. For this 

 purpose they are wound upon separate bobbins, and small 

 white spots, purposely left in the dyeing, enable the workmen 

 to arrange the coloured parts properly opposite each other. 

 They are then carefully rolled upon the beam, and the weav- 

 ing proceeds rapidly, each thread being brought into the pile 

 upon every successive wire. Mr Whytock uses the grooved 

 wires, and cuts the pile in the manner of the Wilton carpet. 



Excepting in the necessity for the recurrence of the pattern, 

 this has all the advantages of the Turkey carpet. The colour- 

 ed spots can be produced at any point, and need not run in 

 rows as in all the others. It need hardly be added, that great- 

 ly admired patterns have already been produced by this me- 



