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galleries of exhibition. The workshop for dyeing, independently of a 
director (a) and a sub-director, (6) occupies a chief dyer,(c) two journey- 
men, a pupil and two labourers. The wools and silks used in the manu- 
factory of Beauvais are dyed there. The director of dyeing, gives each 
year a course ot chemistry applicable to dyeing. The schools of 
design and of tapestry, are directed by two professors, (d) of whom one 
bears the title of assistant professor. Free pupils from without are 
admitted, in tolerable numbers, to follow the course of the school of 
design, which comprises elementary drawing, study of the antique and 
living models (e). 
The school of tapestry, opened in 1848, with five or six pupils, now 
contains twenty-two. These pupils taken generally at the age of twelve 
or thirteen years, and by ministerial authority, after two years 
trial, belong indifferently to the families of tapestry workers, or out- 
side ; it is very rarely that they are admitted to the workshops of 
tapestry or of carpets before the age of nineteen or twenty years. In 
entering them they are still looked upon and directed as pupils for 
several years. 
The workshop for fine-drawing or darning occupies five persons ; a 
first fine-drawer, two old tapestry fine drawers, and two workers. 
The business of this workshop, consists in reuniting or fine-drawing 
the parts of the carpets or tapestries made separately in the loom, in 
mending torn parts, holes, or pieces moth-eaten. The fine-drawer does 
with the needle what the maker does with the broche ; he reestablishes 
in the first place the portions of the warp injured or destroyed, then 
the woof, with the wools of colours assorted for tapestry to be repaired. 
The exhibition galleries contain a suite of choice tapestries, belong- 
ing to the different periods of fabrication, and from which a judgment 
may be formed of the modifications and progress of the art from the 
foundation of the manufacture of the Gobelins to the present day. 
(a) M. Chevreuil, Member of the Institute, has directed, since 1824, the che- 
mical laboratory and workshop for dyeing. 
(5) These functions are filled by M. Decaux, appointed October 18, 1843. 
(c) M. Perrey has filled this office since 1858, in the place of M. le Bois, who 
died the 15th July, 1857. 
(d) M. Abel Lueas, painter and artist in tapestry making, pupil of the S:hool 
of Fine Arts in the manufactory of the Gobelins, is professor of the School of 
Design since 1848, period of the retiring of M. Mulard, ancient inspector of the 
manufacture, and professor of that school. He unites to these functions, since 
1850, that of professor of the school of tapestry. M. Hippolyte Lucas, his 
brother also a painter, pupil of the Fine Arts and of the Gobelin manufactory, 
is assistant professor at the schools of design and of tapestry since 1857. 
(e) The study of living models, suppressed in 1848 was re-established in 1850. 
