Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-22

CoTrON SPINNING IN ENGLAND AND INDIA Dr., Ire has we'll said of the fine English spinning milIs that they the triumph of art, and the glory of Eng gand" In illustration of the former part of his sentence and of the perfection to which spinning has arrived in Manchester, it may be stated that single pound of yarn, spun from island cotton, in the magnificent factory of 1'hos. Hodsworth Esq, M. F. was run out into 450 hanks, each of which contained $40 yards, the whole therefore extending to 2l5 mies The spun thread ofts cotton is said to be three hindrcdh of an inch thick, being much finer than the human hair while the delicate flament ofthe unspun cotton, as measured by the mcrometer microscope, gives but diameter of one thrce-thousandth of an inch.
 The fneness and delicacy of Indian spinning is well known; indeed the iar-iamed robes Dacca have been styled on account of the tenuity of their fabric, the wopen ioud. The style of weaving in the East is so different from ours, to make it difficult to describe or apprehend. ss The tanty, or Hindoe weaver,' says late writer, digs first hole in the earth for his leg to be conveniently seated on the ground He then drives two strong bamboo stakes into the earth at distance apart proportional to the breadth of his web and near enough to wall or tree for fix ing the stakes to it by slender bamboos. The frame in Oriental ooms consists merely of two roller beams resting on two pairs of sticks driven into the ground, and two sticks which cross the chain or warp, and are supported at each end, the one of them by two cords tied 10 the palm tree. under whose shade the loom is placed, and the other by two cords fastened to the foot of the These enable him to part the alternate yarns for the purpose of trayersng the warp with the wool.
 A very rude stick or wooden bar serves the weaver or . shuttle, which answers also the purpose of q batten for driving home each woof-yarn against it's predecessor to give the cloth the proper close ness of texture. The loops beneath the gear, into wbieb he inserts his great toes, serve him for tred- dies; and with his long shuttle he both draws the wet through the warp pnd closes it up. With such awk- ward mechanism as this, are woven those muslins of aerial fucness. and transparent and delicate IS the gossamer web. The reed is indeed like our own, and is the only thing made with the appearance of mechanical skill.
 Many extravagant stories have been told of the cotton tissues of India; which, though greatly exag- geted eyince that there must have been some fonda ton for their origin. Tavernier, celebrated oriental traveller two hundred years ago, mentions that n Persian ambassador, on his return from India, prosecuted bis sovereign with cocoa-nut, which, on being opened contained muslin turban, thirty yards long, and which, when spread, eopld hardly be felt. It Is related of the Emperor Arunzebe, who died in l707, that perceiying his daughter approaching In n transparent robe, he reproaclIed her with it's in- dsticacy, upon which she assured her father that 1t was wfapt niue fies round the body. It is said that the Hindoos have peculiar delicacy of touch, ard an exquisite sepsblty and pliancy in every ergan, which enables them to spin and weave boih3sk and pottop w,h gossamer tepuity. Mir. Orme, in describ wind of tho ray silk from tbe pod aftbe worm; a single pod of raw silk is divided into twenty dsrepr degrees of nspess, and so exquisite is the feeling of these women, that while the thread is running through their fingers swiftly that the eye be of no assis tance, they will break il oexactly the assortments change, at once, from the first the twentieth from the nineteenth to the sccond."