The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-12-17

Blaine.
The Eceniag Post gives the follow
ing description Of some American
fabrics which need only be made
known to the people generally 10 Sc
cure great demand for them: The
preference for our productions is
pretty general, and it only neeGs that
goods should be as good as can be
imported to ensure a ready sale for
any native productions. 1t seems
ike a very unTise thing to mark
homemade goods ''imp0rted" as this
srticie says is often done, for people
really desirous of buying home pro
ducts cannot be sure Of getting them,
and it helps to give credence to the
idea that all that is good comes from
abroad. 1t is a wrong to manufac-
turcrs and consumers.
Ii is natural to speak first Of Amer
lean silks, since all silk forms the
most important part of the modern
wardrobe. As general thing their
finish is not SO fine nor their lustre
so rich a. that of European make
but on their side is the merit of great
er durability. The colorlng Of one
is equal to the colQring of the other.
There are ail qualities, from those at
less than two dollars q yard, which.
like the foreign goods, arc apt to
. crack after moderate use, to those at
four dollars, or there bouts, which are
simply not as handsome as the i'm
ported silks. The grade at two dol
lars, much resembling Pins poplins,
is perhaps the best known and most
thorough y-teSted OF domestic silks.
It comes in all cOIors as we'll as
black, and is said to wash like MUS
lin. We have heard OF one lady who
subjected black twO-dollar silk to
the tubs three times, and who waa
druiy persuaded, after the last bath,
that it looked better than new. We
know from experience that It's endu-
rance seems unlimited, and we can
hearth y recommend it.
Besides the gTos-gain silks there
are beautiful soft twilied kinds. such
as are used for neckties. These sre
in delicate shades, of plain colors and
plaids Of colors and white. Al
though they have been used chiefly
for ties thus far, they are exception
ally pretty for trimming and all sorts
Of drapery, and promise 10 supercede
crepe de chine TO a large extent.
They are wide-twenty-six inches,
ne beliCye-and are generally about
three dollars q yard. Then again our
ioulards are remarkably handsome,
and as tie seal OF French mode mas
been set upon foulard there is no
reason why we should not take ad-
vantage OF it and bring our own
make into favor. The twilled val ie-
ties are stronger and prettier than
the plain goods, also 3 tfife more ex-
pensiye. The fouards bear nearly
the entire coIors OF silk, and are
sometimes figured.
Most Of our large silk manufac-
turcTs make ribbons OF every hue and
kind, and as soft as the best foreign
qualities. Bcltings aud lining silks,
sowing and embroidery silks. hand
kerchiefs and neckerchiefs-indeed,
almost all descriptions Of silk manu-
tacture are carried on in this country.
There are many sorts of wooden
goods woven here. Not seldom is it
that domestic products of this order
slip into market marked "imported."
There seems to be an unfounded be-
lief that everything which comes to
us from across the ocean is good,
merely from that fact, while whatever
is advertised as homemade is regard
ed as ofquestionable value. Specious
reasoning is offered to prove this;
and no one will deny that the gener-
al standard of European productions
Is higher than our own; but that
does not affect instances where ours
are the equals, sometimes the supe-
riors, of their transatlantic rivals.
New England furnishes as hand
some fiannels, lettings and balmoral
stufls as there are in the world. In
other sections excellent alpacss, de-
LANES and various wool goods are
made, also heavy cloakings, beaver
cloths, broad cloths, fur cloths, water
proof cloths, opera cloths, soft fancy
cloths for jackets and carriage wraps,
divers cloths for gentlemen's use; in
fact, the weaving Of almost every ma
tcrerial into which the fleece Of sheep
can be put IS among our native in
dustries.
Cotton fabrics always appear to
belong Of right to America. Since
cotton ceased TO rule us We have ruled
it and compelled it into many new
and graceful forms. First is the
muslin, or what New Englanders call
cotton cloth. No better is produced
on the globe. Our mills have great