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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP IX. 85 to have exhausted itself in seeking examples and authorities in the past for forms and colors of ecclesiastical vestments. Silk, gold, silver, and jewels glitter on the copes, the chasubles, the mitres, the stoles, and altar-cloths, of the church more prodigally, and combined with higher skill, than they could have done in the most splendid pe riod of mediaeval history. It is said that in some of these tissues the workman can weave not more than an inch in a day, and the prices sometimes attain the enormous sum of three hundred dollars per yard. The most brilliant display of these fabrics, as well as those for upholstery purposes, was made by Messrs. Tasiman & Chatel; the latter being a Judge, the exhibit was precluded from an official award. Their magnificence equaled all that the imagination could conceive. An interesting feature of some of these fabrics was a reproduction of Oriental types, illustrating the views maintained by the learned M. Michel, that the figures on heraldic coats of arms were derived from silk-stuffs of the East, of which the representation of animals—such as lions, leopards, eagles, griffins, etc.—formed the ordinary ornament. On one of the fabrics exhibited by Mr. Chatel, with a background of gold and red, was interwoven, so as to cover the surface, repeated figures of elephants, horses, falcons, cocks, dogs, deer, and mounted horsemen; all designed conventionally, or in heraldic style. To illustrate the extent and variety of the silk products and pro ducers of France, as well as to pay a deserved tribute to the typical silk-manufacturers of the world, we subjoin a list of the principal French exhibitors, with the products: Black silks . . . , . , C. J. Bonnet’s Sons & Co., Lyons. Black silks Jaubert, Audras, & Co., Lyons. Black silks Tapissier Son & Debry, Lyons. Black silks Gourd, Croisat Son, & Dabost, Lyons. Black silks Antoine Guinet & Co., Lyons. Black and colored velvets . . . Gautier, Bellon, & Co., Lyons. Black velvets and colored silks . . J. P. Million & Servier, Lyons. Black velvets ..... Font, Chambeyron, & Benoit, Lyons. Black silk velvets . . _ . . . C. J. Servant & Co., Lyons. Black dyed silks . . ‘ . . . Gillet & Son, Lyons. Dress silks and novelties . . . Poncet, Senior & Junior, Lyons. Colored silk goods .... Faye & Thevenin, Lyons. Silk goods Sevene, Barral, & Co., Lyons. Damask silks and novelties . . . Bresson-Agnds & Co., Lyons. Colored failles and gros-grains . . Bardon & Ritton, Lyons. Striped and fancy silks .... Mauvernay & Co., Lyons. Siciliennes ...... Audibert, Monin, & Co., Lyons. Po P lins J. Drogue & A. Monnord, Lyons. Foulards A. L. Trapadoux & Co., Lyons. Foulards Jandin & Duval, Lyons.