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Classes 12 & 15.—WOOLLEN AND WORSTED.Areas L. M. N. 0. 10 to 17, and South Transept Gallery.

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Figured Orleans, in different qualities, &c., composedof worsted and cotton', for dresses, &c.

Mohair serge, in various patterns and qualities, forcoat facings, &c.

Orleans serge, for coat facings, &c.

Mohair lustre, plain, composed of mohair and cotton,of various qualities.

1G5a Holdsworth, Joseph, Wakefield —Dyer andFinisher.

Pieces of stuff, mixed fabric of cotton and worsted, andcotton and mohair, figured and plain; exhibited asspecimens of dyeing.

166 Holdsworth, John, & Co., Halifax, Yorkshire —Manufacturers.

Crimson merino and green durant, for lining rich da-masks. Black and white cotillion for ladies’ skirts.

Printed Tournays, registered patterns, used for furni-tures.

Green and gold, crimson, buff, blue and gold, gold andwhite, and gold silk and worsted damask.

Crimson and gold, blue and salmon, and crimson,green, and gold yarn-dyed damask.

Blue, giraffe and white, crimson, green, and morone,and blue and salmon yarn-dyed damask.

Green and white and drab and white union damask.

Giraffe and white, blue and white, Ponceau and white,fawn and white, and gold and white union damask, allregistered designs for furnitures.

Scarlet, drab, giraffe, Ponceau, sea-green, fawn, blue,rose, crimson, green, morone, and buff worsted damaskfor furnitures. Ponceau and sea-green Turkey clothdamask.

Green and gold, green, crimson, crimson and gold,green, salmon, and white, blue and gold (silk) yarn-dyedTurkey cloth damask.

Royal blue and buff, crimson and gold, crimson, mo-rone, and gold, crimson, gold, and white silk and wooldamask. Green and Ponceau merino curtain, quite new,all for furnitures.

Albert, Victoria, merino, and silk and wool tablecovers; registered patterns.

Crimson, scarlet, drab, and Ponceau watered moreen,for furnitures.

Coburg and Orleans cloths for ladies’ dresses. Blacklining for coats. Damask aprons. Merino damask.

Serge de Beni, union, worsted, and silk lasting forbuttons.

167 Sugden, J., &Brothers, Dockroyd Mills, near Keighley ,Bradford —Manufacturers.

Plain and striped calimancos; strong worsted merino,union, and princetta says; strong union, and merinoshalloons; merinos; cubicas; summer cloths, doubletwill; union princettas; bombazet; worsted lieald yarns;worsted genappes; mohair and alpaca genappes; 800 spe-cimens of yarns, used in the manufacture of poplins, &c.

168 Milner, J v & Co., Clayton, near Bradford—

Manufacturers.

Orleans. Worsted weft and cotton warp, in differentcolours. __

169 Clark, J., 56 High Street, Bradford— Manufacturer.Table cloth, embroidered with thread on crimson

sarsenet.

170 Slater, Henry, Ycadon, near Leeds — Manufacturer.

Woollen netting, used by gardeners for the protectionof the bloom of fruit-trees from frost.

170a Nicholson, John, Bradford— Manufacturer.Specimens of cards.

171 Roberts, H., Bradford —Manufacturer.Grogan coatings.

172 Tetley, Mrs., Bradford —Producer.Embroidered quilt.

173 Rand, John, & Sons, Bradford —Manufacturers.Cobourg cloths, cotton warp, worsted weft, of different

qualities, blacks, and colours; Coburg cloths, first quality;and with silk warp; merinos, moreens, and worsted warpand weft, single and double twill. Several of the piecesexhibited are of the finest description of worsted goodsever manufactured.

[The following details will convey some idea of theprogress and extent of the worsted stuff trade. Messrs.J. Rand & Sons’ factory was built in 1803, and was thethird erected in Bradford. The population of the townand neighbourhood was then about 6,500; it is nowestimated at 90,000. There are at present in Yorkshire (principally in the parishes of Bradford, Halifax, Keighley ,andBingley), 418 worsted factories, with 746,281 spindles,30,856 power-looms, and employing 70,905 workpeople.Taking the worsted and woollen manufactures together,the increase during the last 16 years has been, in thenumber of factories 51 per cent.; in the number of handsemployed, 116 per cent.—G. T.]

174 Horsfall, J. G., & Co., Bradford —Manufacturers.Henrietta cloths, with silk warp and worsted weft.

Fine Saxony cloth, all wool.

Fine Coburg cloth, with cotton warp and worstedweft.

Coburg cloth of various qualities.

175 Townend, Simeon, Thornton, near Bradford —

Manufacturer.

Worsted lieald, and genappe yarns, spun from Britishwools ; healds, or harness for weaving woollens, worsteds,linens, cottons, &c.; braids, poplins, galloons, cords, &c.manufactured from genappe yarns.

176 Wiiitley, James, Morton, near Bingley, Yorkshire —

Manufacturer.

Alpaca yarns on spools prepared for weaving.

Mixed alpaca and mohair yams on spools prepared forweaving, in various colours.

177 Sharp, David Wilkinson, Bingley —Manufacturer.Alpaca yarns on weaving bobbins, prepared by Ross’s

new process, with improvements.

Mohair yam on spinning bobbins, two-fold in the hank,and in colours.

Mohair yarn, single in the hank.

Slivers of mohair, combed.

Worsted yarn on weavers’ bobbins.

178 Quitzow, Schlesinger, & Co., Bradford _

Proprietors.

Berlin wool, in various folds and colours, spun anddyed in England.

Flax , produced by the new patent process of Mr. PClaussen, viz., flax in the straw, showing on the samestems the fibre both unprepared and prepared, and alsounbleached, bleached, and dyed various colours; cardedflax-fibre, unbleached, bleached, and dyed; heckled flax-fibre, long flax-fibre, unbleached and bleached.

Yarns, spun from the above flax, alone, and mixed withcotton, wool, and silk.

[To the present time it has been considered impossibleto apply existing cotton machinery to the manufacture offlax. Mr. P. Claussen considers that this difficulty nowno longer exists, and that by processes adopted by him, itis possible to prepare a kind of “cotton” from flax,suitable for a large number of manufacturing purposes,and capable of being spun in tolerably high numbers.A peculiar part of Mr. Claussen’s patent is the bleachingof flax and its disintegration, which is said to be effected