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OF COPYING.
Weight of One Square Yard of each of the following Articles.[1]
| Description of Goods. | Value per Yard Measure. |
Weight finished of One Square Yard. |
Weight of Cotton used in making One Square Yard. |
| Caterpillar Veils Silk Gauze 3-4 wide Finest Patent Net Fine Cambric Muslin 6-4ths Jaconet Muslin Ladies' coloured Muslin Dresses 6-4ths Cambric 9-8ths Calico 12-yard Nankeen |
s. d. 1 0 2 0 3 0 1 2 0 9 0 8 |
Troy Grains. 413 137 26212 551 613 788 972 988 2240 |
Troy Grains. 670 875 1069 1085 2432 |
(159.) This enumeration, which is far from complete, of the arts in which copying is the foundation, may be terminated with an example which has long been under the eye of the reader; although few, perhaps, are aware of the number of repeated copyings of which these very pages are the subject.
1. They are copies, by printing, from stereotype plates.
2. These stereotype plates are copied, by the art of casting, from moulds formed of plaster of Paris.
- ↑ Some of these weights and measures are calculated from a statement in the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on Printed Cotton Goods; and the widths of the pieces there given are presumed to be the real widths, not those by which they are called in the retail shops.
