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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP IX. Fancy silks . . . . . . . C. G. Hornbostel & Co., Vienna. All-silk velvets ...... F. Reichert’s Sons, Vienna. Hatters’ ribbons ...... J. Swartz & Son, Vienna. GREAT BRITAIN. Great Britain failed to make any adequate representation of her manufacture, although it counts by millions of pounds sterling in value. There were only four well-marked exhibits. Pin Brothers & Co. did high credit to Ireland, by a splendid display of their black and colored hand-woven plain silk poplins, which are celebrated throughout the world, and by "furniture damasks of fine effect. Nor ris & Co. made an excellent display of upholstery silks, which were specially noticeable for admirably executed designs, in great variety, all conceived in the spirit of the modern English school. Admirably executed figured and emblematical ribbons were exhibited by Thomas Stevens, of Coventry, as well as an excellent silk loom of quite origi nal construction. There were two excellent exhibits of sewing-silks. ITALY. Italy, who, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, supplied all Europe with the richest fabrics of silk, equally disappointed the vis itor at the Exhibition by her display of fabrics in this department; only a single exhibit of figured velvets from Milan being noticeable. A series of rich antique stuffs in the Castellani collection, however, gave the visitor some conception of the ancient splendors of the silk fabrication of Italy. SPAIN. The political condition of Spain prevented her from making the display of which she would have been otherwise capable. Spain is still a treasure-house of the splendid stuffs of the past, most of the richest ornaments of the Kensington Museum having been obtained in that country. We are assured that many of the traditionary arts of silk-weaving have been preserved, particularly in the religious houses. Black silks of good manufacture, and black cashmere silks in fine grades, well made in every respect, were exhibited; also cur tains, furniture damasks, and brocades in good colors; effective stuffs for cravats and fichus, and hand-made figured silks in old Moorish and Oriental styles. The principal exhibitors and products were: Black silks ....... Antonio Pascual & Co., Reus, Tarragona. Black cashmere silks .... Farriols & Son, Barcelona. Curtain and furniture damasks . . . Benito Malrehy, Barcelona. Silk cravats and fichus .... Eduardo Reig & Co., Barcelona. Valencia silks in old Moorish styles . . Fernando Ibanez Palenciano, Valencia.