Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — TEXTILE FABRICS. [ARTICLE]

TEXTILE FABRICS.

Dbesses of spun glass were shown in Paris in 1868. China grass was used for making very fine goods in 1827. In 1839 two-ply ingrain carpets wore made in Lowell, Mass. A combing maohine was patented by Joshua Heilman in 1845. In 1870 the value of the world’s silk produce was £44,788,000. In 1875 silk-raising was firmly established in South Carolina. The self-acting mule was patented by Roberts, English, in 1825. The electric loom was invented bv Bonelli, of Turin, in 1854. Aniline violet was discovered and applied to calicoes in 1863. In 1831 the duty of 3|d on the square yard of calico was removed. Aniline blue dye was discovreed an i used in cotton making in 1861. The wool crop of the whole world was in 1884 1,984,140,«0u pounds. Is 1839 about five tons of raw si k was produced in Mansfield, Coun. The cotton crop of 1829 was 870,415 ba'es; of 1891 was 8,65v5J8 bales. In 1830 the extensive cultivation of jute for gunny cloth began in India In 1848 a beautiful mauve dye was procured from lichens by Sfenhouse. In 1854 the si ik-worm disease re u ! the silk crop of Fiance by one-third. Is 1864 Pasteur discovered the parasite which caused silk-worm diseas •. Alizarine dye was discov red an« applied to cotton printing abo.it t 0,.. In 1876 thirty-two different varietie of sheep were known o wool grow r j . In 1841 the “Manchester interest be gan to be prominent in English polit cs. In 1888 there were 8!,210,000 pin 1 'in operation in Europe, America an Asia. , '' Tire Royal Flax Improvement So iet English, was founded in 1844; l,ved eighteen years. In 1858 a commission appointed j French Government began to investigate the disease.