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54 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION,\ 1876. coarser Cheviot wools, and of a thicker texture, would be preferred for many uses. No attempts to make the highest qualities of shawls have been made in this country, partly for the same reason that the French, who had perfectly succeeded in making the cashmere shawls, were com pelled to abandon the manufacture, because the French ladies pre ferred an inferior but genuine Indian shawl to a better article of French fabrication. Exquisite shawls, but of precisely the same texture as the Indian shawls, were exhibited by Lyons manufacturers. The material is the finest and most costly Electoral wool. The prices range from $30 to $150. The only rivals of the French in this class of shawls are houses in Vienna, whose products were also exhibited. None but the initiated could determine the difference between these two national products. The French, however, assert that the Austrian products are copied from their own, but that the delicacy of the origi nals is lost, saying, “ One may transplant a tree, but not the soil and the air which give flavor to its fruits.” It is asserted that the silky Mauchamp wool, previously mentioned, forms a material for the finest shawls, really surpassing the cashmere of the East. Admirable shawls made of wool or worsted, in India designs, have become celebrated under the name of Paisley shawls, from the place of their manufacture in Scotland. None of the Scotch shawls of this class were exhibited, but this style of fabrication was represented by shawls of India designs, made by Messrs. Martin Landenberger & Sons, of Philadelphia, the material being American combing-wool. These shawls, well made and in excellent taste, are woven in the power Jacquard loom, at prices so moderate as to insure a large popular consumption. CLASS 238. — Combed Wool Fabrics, Worsted, Yarns, Dress Goods for Women’s Wear. Delaines, Serges, Poplins, Me rinos. This class includes, with the exception of carpets, all the multi tudinous fabrics recognized in England as the products of the worsted industry. It forms the second of the two grand divisions of the wool- industry. Through the variety of its products, the skill demanded in their fabrication, the capital and number of persons employed in the great manufacturing nations of Europe, and the rapidity of its develop ment during the last century, this division has become the most important branch of the woolen manufacture. So important a class could not fail to be largely represented in an exhibition of the products of the world; but the student of textile