Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — A New Plash. [ARTICLE]

A New Plash.

Commencement has been made in England within a comparatively recent period upon the manufacture of of what is regarded as an important new fabric, that is, an inexpensive weft pile plusb, with either single pile or pile on both sides. A reversible pile plush has in times past been made in the factories of Germany, with hand-looms, at the rate of six yards to the loom per week, but by means of the newly contrived apparatus, which has been devised by a Bradford manufacturer, and can be fixed to ordinary dress and coat looms, it is said to operate at seven times the speed of the German handloom, and to make goods of equal quality at a less price. The new goods have a weft pile, and consequently a very much cheaper yarn can be used—New York Sun. The first pair of silk stockings made in England were finished in 1564.