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86 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Foulards Hatters’ plushes Black and colored satins Hatters’ plushes . Crapes .... Umbrella silks Velvet ribbons Velvet ribbons Sewing-silks . Silk gauzes and bolting-cloth Bolting cloth Raw and sewing-silk Gondard, Cirlot, & Martel, Lyons. Huber & Co., Paris. Brosset-Heckel & Co., Lyons. J. B. Martin, Tarare. Montessuy & Chomer, Lyons. Alex. Giraud & Co., Lyons. F. Brioude, St. Etienne. Giron Brothers, St. Etienne. Benoit, Tabard, & Co., Lyons. L. Dornon, Lyons. L. R. Gascou, Montauban. Joseph Puydebart, Lyons, j GERMANY. Germany, although ranking second in the production of manufac tured silk,—having had a production of the value of $38,000,000 in 1874,—was represented by few exhibitors, awards having been made but to four exhibitors; viz., to Escales & Hatry, of Saargemiind, for silk plushes for hatters’ use, of remarkable perfection in color and finish; to Gressard & Co., of Hilden, for foulards of high excellence; to Carl Mez & Sons, of Freiburg, Baden, for sewing-silks of great beauty in color and finish; Massing Brothers & Co., Piittlingen, for hatters’ plushes of high excellence. But the paucity of exhibitors from Germany was atoned for by the beauty of exhibits made by Mr. Gustav Gebhard, of Elberfeld, who, on account of his position as Judge, was precluded from an award. In the absence of the notes promised by Mr. Gebhard, we are com pelled to trust only to our own memoranda and impressions. The products of the establishment represented are understood to be fur nished by the labor of some four thousand persons, not employed (as with us) in a single establishment, but working hand-looms in their own houses. The goods, exhibited in two very large cases, and most tastefully arranged, consisted of figured velvets, satins, and bro cades, many of them executed in silver and gold. A striking feature of the exhibit was the designation by cards of the markets for which the several fabrics were specially destined. India, Siam, Batavia, Constantinople, had each their special fabrics, in which the character istic features of the native productions of different Oriental countries were reproduced, doubtless with cheaper materials, but with attractive effects. The reference to copies of Oriental fabrics leads us naturally to the original fabrics of silk which were exhibited from the East. The India Museum’s most attractive and instructive exhibit contained INDIA.