Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-04-15

OF tne Work people, VINO may IKE 10 nave
their tea at the factory, in peace and quiet.
They can have hot water, aud make them
selves comfortable here. Against the door
hangs list Of books, read, or to be read,
by the people and very good list 1t Is.
Prints. from RaHalles Bible, plainly
framed, aTe on the walls. Ia the middle
OF the room, on, aud beside, a table, are
four men and boys preparing the strap
Plug" of jacquard loom for work. The
cords, so called, are woven at Shrewsbury,
We next enter a room where a young man
IS engaged IN the magical work of read
ing III from the draught" The draught Is
the pattern Of the intended ribbon. drawn
and painted upon diced paper-like the
patterns for carpets that we saw at kendal,
bu, good deal larger, though the article
produced here is much smaller The
young man sits, as at loom. Before him
hangs the mass Of cords he is to lie into
pattern, close before his face, like the cur
tain of a cabinet piano. Upreared before
his eyes is his pattern, supported by a slip
of wood. He brings the line he has to
read IN" TO the edge OF this wood. and
then, with nimbIe fingers, separates the
cords, by threes by segens, by nves, by
,welyes, according To the pattern, and
threads through them the string which IS
to tie them apart The skill and speed
with which he feels out his cords while his
eyes are fixed on the pattern appear very
remarkable but when we come to consid-
er, 1t is not so complicated a process as
playing at sight on tie piano. The reader
has to deal thus with one chapter, or series,
or movement, of his pattern. A da capo
ensues in other words. the Jacuuard cards
are tied together. to beain acain and there
is revolution ofthe cards. and a renetition
Of the pattern. tl the piece of ribbon is
flushed. IN the same apartment is the
press in which the Jacquard cards are
prepared Just IN the way which NAV be
seen wherever silk or caroet weayipo with
Jacquard looms. goes forward
All the preparatious having been seem
the making of the MACHINERY, the 6llior of
the spools. the drawing and ..readin, ,nD
of The patern. aud the tying of the cords
or strapping. we have to see the great pro-
cess of all-the actual weaving. We GER
tainly had no idea how fine spectacle il
might be. Floor above floor is occuoied
with long room in each. where the looms
are set as close as they can work. on either
NARROW nA@NnNt
tween. II NAV seem an odd thing To saw !:
but there is kind of architectural cram
deur in these logfy rooms where the rams
verse cords of The looms and their shafts
and beams are so uniform. as to produce
the impression that symmetry. on a lar1e
scale. ALWAYS lives. Looking down upon
the details. there is plenty of beauty. The
hnht aiaares upnn the Gloss, colored silks
depending, like veil, from the backs OF
the looms where women aud girls are busy
pieciug he imperfect threads with nmhle
{ fingers. There seems to be plenty for one
person to do; FOR there are thirteen broad
ribbons, or a greater number of narrow
ones, woven at once, IN a single loom yet
ri may sometimes be seen that one person
can attend the fronts, and another the backs
Of two looms. In the front we see the thir-
teen ribbons getting made. Usually they
are OF the same pattern, ia different coors.
The shuules, with their gay htue spools,
fly 30 aud iro, and the pattern grows, as Of
It's own will. Below Is barrel, on which
the woven ribbon Is wound. Slowly re-
volyng, it winds On the fabric as II is dn-
ished, leaving the shutiles above room TO
ply their work.
The variety Of ribbons is very great,
though in this factory we saw no gauzes,
nor, at the time OF our visit, any Of the
extremely rich ribbons which made such a
show at the Exhibition. Some had an ele-
giant and complicated pattern, and were
woven with two shuttles (called the double
batten weavng) which came forward alter
nately. as the details of the rich flower or
leaf required the one or the other There
were satin ribbons, in weaving which only
one thread in eight i, taken up-,he gloss
: being given by the silk loop which covers
the other seven. On entering we saw
some narrow scarlet satin ribbons, woven
for the queen. Wondering what her majes-
" could want with ribbons of such a color
: and quality, we were set at ease by finding
, that il was not for ladies', but horses. 1t
was to dress the heads of the royal horses.
, There we're brlde-ke, white figured RIB
: bons. and narrow hinsy black ones, fit for
the wear Of the poor widow who strives Ia
get together some mourning for Sundays.
= There were checked ribbons, of all colors
aud all sizes in the check. There we're
= stripes of all varieties of width and hue.
e There were diced ribbons and speckled and
frosted There we're edaes which NAV in-
5 troduce beautiful harmony of coorng =
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