The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-11
AMERICAS CARPET WILLS.
thousands of Looms Turning on
Fine Tngrains and FRrussaIs 4


Fine Tngrains and Brussels. q
There are in position In the United Sta
to-day 4,2ll looms devoted mainly to the
weaving of extra and medium super carpets.
OF these looms 2,1S9 are in Philadelphia,
the remainder being scattered from Auburn,
~ " to the eastern companies, In States
they he as follows Pennsylvania 2,189
New York, 300 Massachusetts, 375 !; Con
necticut, BAT. The average yield of an in
! grain power loom is thirty yards per diem,
and the possible annual yield of the entire
country in extra supers is 81 1893, 900 yards
per annum. The value of the same is, at
sixty cents per yard, $22 ,739, 400 But all
ingram power looms are not running on
extras T" and allowances will be made ac-
cordlngly. The growth of the brussels in
dustry is interesting, too. In 1880 brussels
carpets were being woven in few cellars
IN Philadelphia by hand. Away back
about that time also the Auburn IN. w
state Prison, under Mr.. Barber, was'turning
out body brussels, and the old factory at
Astoria, which e. s. Higgins bought in
1914, was one of the first to make brussels.
The brussels manufacture, since the Bigelow
loom was perfected, is familiar and need
not be rehearsed. Since the war the great
companies at Hartford, Lowell and Clinton
have assumed huge proportions and turn
out each year magnificent product in
brussels, and other concerns are growing
up about them. In the decade past Phila-
delphla has doomed and contains to-day a
large proportion of the brussels machinery
OF the country. There are in the United
States IN position or about to be placed,
i,l97 brussels looms. The number in each
State Is as follows Pennsylvania, 4s5 New
York, l06; Connecticut, 103 Massachu-
sets, 493 New Jersey, 10. The average
yield of a brussels loom Ia fifty yards pei
day, and all the brussels looms in the coun
try running ON regular time would yield
1856, 900 yards In one year, Sundays and
holidays excluded. Averaging stouts and
five-frame goods at 81 per yard, the value
of our total brussels product would be $17,
955, 900.
The largest tapestry brussels concern in
The United States is that of Alexander Smith
Sons Company, at Yonkers, N Y. They
have $50 looms on tapestries and can turn
out probably 455,000 yards per month,
worth In ten-wire quality at the last LIST
1851 500. Tapestry looms stand around
among the several States as follows Penn.
sylyania (Philadelphia), 1886; New York,
1893; Massachusetts, 1897 New Jersey, ST;
total, 1,510. The total value of the tapestry
product of the country varies greatly. Were
the 1910 looms all running on taps (Which
they are far from doing many being OF
7elvets only, the yearly average would fool
up %, $50, 900 yards, worth, at go cents pei
yard, $1s, 100000.
Power-loom tapestry brussels were first
made in America by E. S. Higgins & Co..
on the Bigelow loom, and at this writing the
prejudice in favor of English goods has dis
appeared American tapestries are excelled
by none in intrinsic excellence. Concerning
tapestry velvets it is difficult to estimate.
Any modern tapestry loom can be adjusted
for velyets, and it is difficult to learn how
many are to-day weaving velvet carpets.
A tapestry loom will run out fifty yards OF
velvet per day and the possible yield OF
the country can be gotten at by multiplying
all the tapestry looms in position by the
product of one. Velvets were popular from
England forty to fifty years ago, and even
earlier Succeeded for time by wiltons,
they have again fully asserted themselves
and become standard fabric.