The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-06-21

Ii Brussels carpet is to be made the
yarn goes to the dye room; but if it is TO
be made into tapestry, then 1t goes 10
the printer. When dyed, of course,
each yarn is OF one color throughout.
When printed every yarn Is of one color
for certain length, perhaps half an
inch, then another for perhaps quarter
of an inch and SO on. The dye house is
picturesque place; it is filled with
clouds of steam that roll from the CAL
drons, over which half naked men are
STOPPING. lifting stout rods covered with
hanks of yarn in and out of the boiling
dye. When the workman thinks the
yarn has acquired the right color he sub
mits a skein of it to the chief dyer. II
he passes it the batch OF yarn is steamed
in order to ''set" the dye, and is then
| washed and dyed in another hot room,
and then the yarn is at last ready for the
loom.
\ Brussels carpet usually contains five
colors. This Is accomplished by filling
five ''lrames" with spools of yarn, each
frame being filed with yarn of one color.
The threads are carried from each spool
| through the "heddle" to the loom.
Above the Jacquard" a part of the
machine Of intricate construction, deter.
| mines Just which threads are raised at a
particular moment so as to appear in the
pattern. Thus Brussels is woven, the
| pattern growing like magic as the shuttle
flies back and forth, every part of the
| complicated machinery of the loom NOV
! ing at its appointed time and place as if
| inspired with intelligence.
The printing process is even moro
wonderful. Imagine huge drum on
which the yarn is wound. Beneath it
! runs carriage carrying Il kind of brush
| loaded with color. The color is changed
as required by a boy. The operator
| turns the drum to q certain point, and at
a signal the carriage rolls across under
| the drum, painting a narrow strip OF col
| or. The drum moves notch and the
| color brush flies back again, doubling
| the width Of the strip. The operator
| follows the pattern before him, and he
| must follow It neatly. If he makes the
! strip of color too wide, and il the color
| be dark, so that another cannot he
| printed over it, the whole drum of yarn
| is spoiled and the blunderer is fneu 81.
When the yarn has all been printed it
| is steamed, washed and dried, and then
| reeled. Now, it must be ''set" accord
/ ing to the pattern. This is a process re
quiring much patience and exactness.
and the nimbie fingers of girls are en-
ployed to do it. When a pattern is
"set, " it is rolled on cylinder, and then
each thread must be fixed into its proper
| place i'll the loom. Then the weaving
! begins and the carpet commences to
| grow, every dot Of color coming exactly
where it should to bring out the pattern
clearly and distinctly. The most won
derful thing about tho loom is the
wire" movement. The machinery pulls
cut from a woven carpet a wire, armed
with a blade at its end. The blade
cuts the wool, and thus makes the
'pile, Then the wire is pushed back
and again thrust into the warp, the
whole movement beng accomplished
with lightning like rapidity.
The carpet must then be carefully
! scrntinized by women, who sew up any
| broken threads; its surface must be
sheared and brushed by machinery, so
as to make it perfectly even and bright,
and then it is ready for the market
| Philadelphia Press.