Nebraska advertiser., 1856-10-25
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From the PhiIadeiphia Ledger, July 7th.
THE CASHMERE GOAr--rTs rETRODUcr1oE
INTO AMERICA.
It is not as yet generally known
that the Ihibet goat, from whose wool
the famous Cashmere shaWls are made,
has been introduced successfully into
the United States. This enterprising
undertaking was achieved, few years
since, after many difficulties, by. DR..
J. B. Davis, Of Columbia, S. c., at
that time employed by the Ottoman
Porte, in experimenting on the growth
Of cotton, in the Sultan's dominions.
DR.. Davis succeeded, at vast expense.
in securiDgfeleven of the pure breed,
which, on his way home, he exhibited
in London and Paris. Since that
period, the goat has been introduced
from South Carolina into Tennessee,
where it is said to thrive. The value
of flock may be estimated from the
fact that no real Thibet goat has ever
been sold for less than thousand
dollars. This enormous price, more
over, is not speculative one, for no
feeced animal has wool of such fine
ness and durability. The woolof all
the Thibet goats in Tennessee, for ex-
ample, has been engaged, at New York,
this year at eight dollars and a half
per pound, the purchasers designing
to sent it to FALSELY, in Scotland, in
order to be manufactured into shawls.
The prices paid for the real Cash
mere shaWls, or those woven in India,
have sometimes been almost fabulous.
A full sized shawl, such as is called in
America a long shawl, ordinarily COM
mands in Paris or London from five
hundred to FIVE thousand dollars, ac-
cording to the quality. Scarfs and
square shaWls, being smaller, sell for
less. 1t is mistake, however, to sup
pose that all these shwals are manufac-
tured in India, in the shape in which
they are sold here. Generally, indeed,
the centers and borders come out
separately, and are put together after
wards in sizes, and often patterns, to
suit customers. Moreover, a large
portion of the shaKls sold as real India
ones are actually made in France, for
the Thibet goat was introduced into
that country more than thirty wears
ago, and the Cashmere shawls initiated
with considerable skill. Judges of
the articles pretend toasay,, however,
that the real India shawl can be de-
tected, by its having aless evenly woven
web, and also from its brighter colors.
It is likewise said that the border of
the genuine Cashmere shawl is inyari-
ably woven in small pieces, which are
afterwards sewed together, as the whole
border is subsequently, sewn on to the
center. But other authorities deny
that the skill of India is insufficient to
brochea shawl; in other words, to weave
the border and centre in one piece, or
run the pattern of the former over the
latter.
Notwithstanding the successful ini-
tation of these shawls, fashion and
luxury still prefer the apparently yruder
original. Just as laces, woven by
hand, bring aprice more than FIVE times
as great as the same pattern woven by
machinery, soa Cashmereshawl, known
to have come from India, will fetch
vastly more than the cleverest imita-
ton. Probably, however, this is not
all. Persons familiar with both the
real article and the imitation assert that
the former is softer than the latter,
and that this softness arises partly
from the way the thread is spun, and
partly because the ThiBet goat, when
exported from its native hills, sensibly
deteriorates. There is also shawl,
known popularity as the French Cash
mere, which is an imitation of the irni-
tation; but this has none, OF. very little
of the wool even of the imported
Thibet goat. The animal from which
this valuable fleece is taken is hardy
creature, at least ini original local
ity; and their fine curled wool lies
close to the skin, lust as the under hair
lof the common goat lies under the
upper hair. Eight ounces for full
sized goat is large yield, but the
yearlings, from whom the best wool il
taken, give less. About FIVE pounds
is required to make a shawl of the
largest size and finer quality; but three
or four pounds is sufficient for an in
lferier one.
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