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74 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. is forty-nine and a half yards per day. This is largely due to the in vention of the power-loom of Mr. Bigelow, the principles of whose inventions are. applied in weaving these fabrics. Particular reference has hitherto been made only to the carpet- manufacture of New England and New York, which is characterized by its few vast establishments. The city of Philadelphia, alone, sur passes all other parts of the country combined in the extent and variety of the carpets which issue from its looms. A prominent characteristic of the Philadelphia manufacture is the diffusion of the industry in small establishments. Philadelphia, with its cheap homes, its abundant and cheap market, and the faculty which it seems to possess above all other cities of appropriating the talents of the artisans who resort to it, is the paradise of the skilled workman. There, as nowhere else in this country, the loom of the handicraft carpet-weaver still finds abundant occupation through the smaller manufacturers, who employ his skill, and furnish the raw material to be worked up by the weaver and his family in their own houses. The carpet-manufacture of Philadelphia is distinguished for its success in making sightly and useful carpets out of cheap materials, adapted for the most modest homes, and its carpet-makers are among the few American manufacturers who have been able to profitably export their products. While small establishments form the rule in the carpet-manufacture of this city, there is one under an individual proprietorship of compara tively recent foundation,—that of Messrs. John & James Dobson,— which employs between two and three thousand workmen, principally in carpets. There are also notable exceptions to the general rule of manufacturing the cheaper products, Messrs. McCallum, Crease, & Sloane having exhibited ingrain carpets of the highest class (which, in design and fabrication, compared favorably with the best in the Exhibition), and the Messrs. Bromley, Venetian carpets illustrating the best merits of that class. We have not attempted, in any other department, to exhibit the present amount of production; but the carpet-manufacture is so prom inent a feature of our textile industry that we have taken pains to obtain, from original sources, the amount of production in 1875. The Carpet Association of Philadelphia has furnished Mr. Lorin Blodgett, for his work on the industries of that city, the statistics of its carpet-manufacture in 1875. The report for 1875 claims the total value of the carpets manufactured in that city to be $19,000,000, and that the increase of machinery since 1869, in the form of mills, steam- power looms, etc., was more than one hundred per cent. Returns