Thomas County cat., 1889-11-21
sARPES AND RUGS.

ss.s Grades os Each Which Are M.n.fsss
ured In America.
IAN increased demand for the }uxH
RES of life indicates the advancement
Of . comHuuitv in art, Taste and TO
6nemant. sal- An expert aced sales
man in the carpet and rug department.
Of great wholesale house to a ~
porter for the Daily Ner*. Take
carpets and rugs alone, for instance.
Ten years ago the stocks of the lead.
ing jobbing houses in Chicago would
not average more than two hundred o.
Two hundred and fifty pieces each.
Now they carry from five hundred to
seven hundred pieces each of body
Brussels and the higher grades. The
heaviest trade i. in extra super-ingrain.
and tapestry Brussels comes next. Are
the finer grades imported? Well, I
should say not. We make better car
pets in America than are made any.
where else in the world, and the same
may be said of rugs, o. course you
can not include among the latter tie
rare India and Persian imported ruga
1 have seen ia well-kn0wn house IN
New York small rugs six by two feet
in size worth fifty and sixty dcllaiA.
while larger India rugs fifty and one
hundred years old. on which whole
families have worked for year or two,
and which look like the rare old
drapery taken from some picture. are
worth fifteen to eighteen hundred dol.
lars. There is not much competitions
il. rugs. The leading industries in this
eruntry are confined to the manufac.
enre of tapestry BRUSSELS. body Brus-
sels, and Smyrna rugs. while there is 8
lsrge manufacture and importation OF
velvets, moquettes, and punjaubs. 4
trm in Halifax, N. s., are the largest
manufacturers in the world of velvets
asd Brussels. The Smyrna and mo-
qVette rugs are the most costly. The
S.,yI mas are alike on both sides and
Pan to high colors. while most of the
others are in patterns of flowers, AMI.
mails, and an infinite variety of de.
igns.
'f'ome time ago the favorite desigr
In Brussels and velvet rugs was the
'JAmbo' pattern. while the figures Of
horses, dogs and stays were placed in
-oany. The Smyrna rug is the most
diffis ult to make and the costliest; tho
body Brussels come next, while tho
tapestry Brussels is much cheaper.
The process of manufacture is difficult
70 explain. It would require a trip
through the manufactures to becomA
acquainted with the details. The tapes
try Brussels is printed first and then
woven into mats and rugs. The body
Brussels patterns are formed on Jse-
guard looms and cards. The leaves
and flowers are formed and cut by ma
shinery on the cards, by the same pro-
cess employed in making carpets.
Velvets, moquettes and punjapbs ara
made on power looms, the same as vel
ret carpets.s They are woven out of
worsted. and the pile is cut or sheared
sown. In Smyrna and limitations of
imported rugs, the material is woven in
colors, and then cut into strips and
woven in stripes or broad ground-fig-
ures on hand looms. They are entirely
alike on both sides. and are an ex.
tremely favorite rug. They vary in
size from one foot square to twelve or
fifteen feet, with borders. Some Of the
looms in which these rugs are woven
are eighteen feet wide. There are sew
eral varieties of cheap and inferior
rags made by individuals. but they do
not come into contact or competition
with the regular trade. They are made
on much the same plan as the old.
fashioned rag carpet. 1t requires es
pecial talent and skill to manufacture
the different varieties of rugs. For in
stance. the body Brussels and ingram
carpets are very' iearly alike in process
of manufacture. but the maker Of these
is not capable OF making tapestries. in
which the pattern is stamped first By
the way, the weavers of ingram two.
ply carpets in Philadelphia have beer
on strike for twenty-one weeks. and
this variety of carpets is much higher
in the market in consequence. Chi.
aGgo NeUs.