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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP IX. and the United States. This style of carpet, of quite recent inven tion, is particularly adapted to the popular demand for brilliant effects at moderate prices, for there is no form of carpet in which so good an appearance can be secured at so low a cost. In all other carpets the yarns are dyed. The principle of the fabrication of these carpets consists in printing the colors upon the warps in such a manner that when the warps are woven they form the desired figure. In this style of carpet the room for the application of color and design is unlimited. The method of printing the warps, which constitutes the essential feature of the tapestry carpets, was the invention of Mr. Whitock, of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1838. The invention met with little success until the right to apply it in England was secured by Mr. John Crossley, of Halifax, England, about 1842. With his charac teristic energy and skill he made the fabrication a perfect success, and the establishment founded by him still makes the largest production of this fabric of any in the world. In 1846, Mr. John Johnson, an Englishman, educated in Crossley’s establishment, and who had himself put up the first machinery for this branch of fabrication at Halifax, came to this country, and estab lished the manufacture of tapestry carpets at Newark, New Jersey, run ning about twenty-five hand-looms. He was facilitated in his enterprise here by the fact that Whitock had taken out no patents in this coun try. Mr. Johnson subsequently removed his establishment to Troy, New York, where the manufacture was carried on for two or three years under his direction, though not in his name. In the autumn of 1855 the machinery was purchased by a company, of which Mr. M. H. Simpson was the principal stockholder, and removed to Rox- bury, Massachusetts, in 1856. The great inventive power of Mr. Simpson, seconded by the experience of Mr. Johnson, has secured for the Roxbury Carpet Company the prominence in this manufacture displayed by its beautiful fabrics at the Exhibition. This company has by no means the monopoly of this manufacture in this country. Its claims for excellence are contested by Messrs. Higgins & Co., of New York; Alexander Smith & Sons, of Yonkers ; Stephen Sanford, of Amsterdam, New Jersey; Messrs. Dobson, of Philadelphia; and others. The progress made in the manufacture since its first introduction is remarkable. The product of the first hand-looms was but five yards per loom per day. In 1856 the product of the Roxbury Carpet Com pany for each loom per day was sixteen yards. At present the aver age product of each of the one hundred and fourteen looms employed