TEXTILE FABRICS.

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S| )0 |] t |' ein from falling into the fire and occasioning a smoke, which would affect andte a lea. This slap on the basket is invariably applied throughout the stages of thethat r a .? ufac '«re. There is always a large basket underneath to receive the small leavesare afterwards collected, dried, and added to the other tea; in no casea '? baskets or sieves permitted to touch or remain on the ground, but always laid on^ eiv .er with three legs. After the leaves have been half dried in the drying basket,W$k , e l bey are still soft, they are taken off the fire and put into large open-workediVo . ari( ^ l ben put on the shelf, in order that the tea may improve in color.

Ui- e ^ a 5' the leaves are all sorted into large, middling, and small; sometimes thereU | Sorls * All these, the Chinese informed me, become so many different kinds ofand e Sm allest leaves they called Pba-ho, the second, Pow-chong, the third Su-chong,l»Ut 0 e fourth, or the largest leaves, Toy-chong. After this assortment they are againthe ^ le sieve in the drying basket (taking great care not to mix the sorts), and on

the $• a ? 011 the preceding day ; but now very little more than will cover the bottom of

pie Ca ev . e put in at one time, the same care of the fire is taken as before, and the samefile w’ i 0n tapping the drying basket every now and then. The tea is taken off thethe d ■ ^ te n * c est care, for fear of any particle of the tea falling into it. Whenevertah eii r ^ ln ? basket is taken off, it is put on the receiver, the sieve in the drying basket*U>aiu the tea turned over, the sieve replaced, the tap given, and the basket placedf ^eiv‘° Ver fire. As the tea becomes crisp, it is taken out and thrown into a large^ich* 0 }^ unl *l t-be quantity on hand has become alike dried and crisp; from

^ 15 a ? a * n removed into the drying basket, but now in much larger^ket ■* ^ ls then b'ilcd l] P eight and ten inches high on the sieve in the drying

hef 0 >' in the centre a small passage is left for the hot air to ascend; the fire that was

that h k r M?bt and clear, has now ashes thrown on it to deaden its effect, and the shakingsthe * aVe been collected are put on the top of all; the tap is given, and the basket withea * est care is put over the fire. Another basket is placed over the whole, to throwUie beat that may ascend. Now and then it is taken off, and put on the receiver;j? n ^ s 5 with the fingers wide apart, are run down the sides of the basket to the sieve,

a P !a cea on the fire. It is from time to time examiner], and when the leaves havecrisp that they break by the slightest pressure of the fingers, it is taken off,The, 11 *® tea is ready. All the different kinds of leaves underwent the same operation,then r? * s now little by little put into boxes, and first pressed down with the hands andThe* 1 ” - l ” e Cdean stockings having been previously put on).

* s a small room inside of the tea-house, 7 cubits square and 5 high, havingKon* laU across on, the top to support a net-work of bamboo, and the sides ofleuv es 0ln Slne ared with mud to exclude the air. When there is wet weather, and theCail not be dried in the sun, they are laid out on the top of this room, on the net-**ther°? atl * lon P an J tbe same as is used to heat the leaves; some fire is put into it,Rootle ^ rass or bamboo, so that the flame may ascend high ; the pan is put on a squarebttl e ” ^’ a me, that has wooden rollers on its legs, and pushed round and round thist)e ca.$; r ° 0tri by one man, while another feeds the fire, the leaves on the top beinglesty e °Jj a Hy turned; when they are a little withered, the fire is taken away, and thethe br ° u 8bt down and manufactured into tea, in the same manner as if it had been dried• ® Un - But this is not a good plan, and never had recourse to, if it can possibly be

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tea gently turned over, the passage in the centre again made, &c.,and the basket

bs. *. ltri Ported into the United Kingdom , in I83fi, 49,307,701 lbs.; in 1837, 36,<65,/35

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TjjiSLMan cfactoee.

I’l?| t j -., See Bones.

Tj.^pP is a metal, too rare and high-priced to be used in the arts.

s^'Otis ^« ~ C °TTA, literally baked clay, is the name given to statues, architectural deco-V.^L^ttres, vases, &c., modelled or cast in a paste made of pipe or potter’s clay and a'id a([„ Inet ' colorless sand, from Ryegate, with pulverized potsherds, slowly dried in the air,1’Uj)i^ ari !s fired to a stony hardness in a proper kiln. See Stone, artificial.

^ SIENA, is a brown ferruginous ochre, employed in painting.aatu°’ are c!lem ‘ ca l reagents of any kind, which indicate, by special characters,'•fids, ^ c re any substance, simple or compound. See Assay, the several metals,

lo^P^E FABRICS. The first business of the weaver is to adapt those parts ofthoi*I’ove the warp, to the formation of the various kinds of ornamental figuresln > and th 6 ° th is ‘"leaded to exhibit. This subject is called the draught, drawing or reading' v ho] e ectding of looms. In every species of weaving, whether direct or cross, theerence of pattern or effect is produced, either by the succession in which the